Table of Contents for
Mastering Wireshark 2

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Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Mastering Wireshark 2 by Andrew Crouthamel Published by Packt Publishing, 2018
  1. Mastering Wireshark 2
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright and Credits
  4. Mastering Wireshark 2
  5. Packt Upsell
  6. Why subscribe?
  7. PacktPub.com
  8. Contributor
  9. About the author
  10. Packt is searching for authors like you
  11. Table of Contents
  12. Preface
  13. Who this book is for
  14. What this book covers
  15. To get the most out of this book
  16. Download the color images
  17. Conventions used
  18. Get in touch
  19. Reviews
  20. Installing Wireshark 2
  21. Installation and setup
  22. Installing Wireshark on Windows
  23. Installing Wireshark on macOS
  24. Installing Wireshark on Linux
  25. Summary
  26. Getting Started with Wireshark
  27. What's new in Wireshark 2?
  28. Capturing traffic
  29. How to capture traffic
  30. Saving and exporting packets
  31. Annotating and printing packets
  32. Remote capture setup
  33. Prerequisites
  34. Remote capture usage
  35. Summary
  36. Filtering Traffic
  37. Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) syntax
  38. Capturing filters
  39. Displaying filters
  40. Following streams
  41. Advanced filtering
  42. Summary
  43. Customizing Wireshark
  44. Preferences
  45. Appearance
  46. Layout
  47. Columns
  48. Fonts and colors
  49. Capture
  50. Filter buttons
  51. Name resolution
  52. Protocols
  53. Statistics
  54. Advanced
  55. Profiles
  56. Colorizing traffic
  57. Examples of colorizing traffic
  58. Example 1
  59. Example 2
  60. Summary
  61. Statistics
  62. TCP/IP overview
  63. Time values and summaries
  64. Trace file statistics
  65. Resolved addresses
  66. Protocol hierarchy
  67. Conversations
  68. Endpoints
  69. Packet lengths
  70. I/O graph
  71. Load distribution
  72. DNS statistics
  73. Flow graph
  74. Expert system usage
  75. Summary
  76. Introductory Analysis
  77. DNS analysis
  78. An example for DNS request failure
  79. ARP analysis
  80. An example for ARP request failure
  81. IPv4 and IPv6 analysis
  82. ICMP analysis
  83. Using traceroute
  84. Summary
  85. Network Protocol Analysis
  86. UDP analysis
  87. TCP analysis I
  88. TCP analysis II
  89. Graph I/O rates and TCP trends
  90. Throughput
  91. I/O graph
  92. Summary
  93. Application Protocol Analysis I
  94. DHCP analysis
  95. HTTP analysis I
  96. HTTP analysis II
  97. FTP analysis
  98. Summary
  99. Application Protocol Analysis II
  100. Email analysis
  101. POP and SMTP
  102. 802.11 analysis
  103. VoIP analysis
  104. VoIP playback
  105. Summary
  106. Command-Line Tools
  107. Running Wireshark from a command line
  108. Running tshark
  109. Running tcpdump
  110. Running dumpcap
  111. Summary
  112. A Troubleshooting Scenario
  113. Wireshark plugins
  114. Lua programming
  115. Determining where to capture
  116. Capturing scenario traffic
  117. Diagnosing scenario traffic
  118. Summary
  119. Other Books You May Enjoy
  120. Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

Installing Wireshark on Windows

You will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the https://www.wireshark.org/ web page:
  1. When you get there, scroll down on the home page and click on Download.
  2. The latest version of Wireshark will be visible. Select the installer for the version of Windows that you are currently running.
Most people on a modern computer, on a modern version of Windows, will be running 64-bit.
If you happen to be running an older version of Windows on 32-bit or older hardware, make sure you select the 32-bit version. If you're not sure which one to use, do the following:
Open your Control Panel, go to System and Security, and click on the System link. In the System section, you'll see that it says System type: 64-bit Operating System. If you have a 32-bit, it'll show that here as well.
  1. Back on the download Wireshark page, download the version that you need, and run that file; now, click on Next to begin the setup.
  1. Read the License Agreement, click on I Agree, and select the features of Wireshark that you wish to include. Most people include all of the defaults. You'll see here that we have the main Wireshark application; we have the classic interface version of Wireshark; and we have TShark, which is a command-line version of running Wireshark; as well as some plugins, the User's Guide, and some additional tools:
  1. We'll go ahead and accept the defaults, and then click on Next. And, in this window, we can go ahead and customize what shortcuts show up and whether file extensions are associated to Wireshark. We're going to turn off the Wireshark Legacy Quick Launch Icon and Wireshark Legacy Start Menu Item:
  1. Go ahead and click on Next, and select a location for Wireshark to install. We'll select the defaults here as well.
  1. And on the next page here, it says: Install WinPcap? If you don't have WinPcap installed, leave that checked and it will install it as part of the install process:
WinPcap is the driver that allows Wireshark to interface with your network card. WinPcap is required for it to be able to view all the packets.
  1. Click on Next.
You can also install USBPcap, which allows you to view the traffic on a USB connection. Most people won't need this, so we'll leave that unchecked.
  1. Go ahead and click on Install and Wireshark will now install.
  2. Partway through the install, the WinPcap installer will then run, and we'll go ahead and click on Next.
  3. Read the License Agreement and click on I Agree. You can then decide whether or not you want the WinPcap driver to run at boot time. Most people allow it to do so. We'll leave that as default, and click on Install.
  4. That will finish very quickly; then click on Finish.
  5. The Wireshark install will then continue. When the text window says completed, go ahead and click Next; and then you can select whether or not you want to run Wireshark at that moment, and click on Finish.

Once the Wireshark GUI loads up, you are done:

In the next section, we'll go over how to install Wireshark on macOS and Linux.