Summary

In this chapter, you've learned a number of skills in Wireshark, including what's new in Wireshark 2, and there are some features from 1.8 that I mentioned, namely, how to capture traffic on a local Wireshark installation; how to get the packets to your Wireshark installation through different means, such as SPAN ports; saving and exporting these packets in different ways; annotating or adding comments to the packet captures and individual packets, and printing them, or selections of them; and lastly, setting up the remote packet capture with WinPcap on a remote Windows system, and using that packet capture from the remote system to a local Wireshark installation.

In Chapter 3Filtering Traffic, we'll go over the various ways of ...

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