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Wireshark Essentials

You're reading from   Wireshark Essentials Get up and running with Wireshark to analyze network packets and protocols effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783554638
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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James H. Baxter James H. Baxter
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Wireshark Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Acquainted with Wireshark FREE CHAPTER 2. Networking for Packet Analysts 3. Capturing All the Right Packets 4. Configuring Wireshark 5. Network Protocols 6. Troubleshooting and Performance Analysis 7. Packet Analysis for Security Tasks 8. Command-line and Other Utilities Index

Wireshark profiles


As we have covered the numerous Wireshark configuration options that are saved in specific files, such as cfilters for Capture Filters, dfilters for Display Filters, colorfilters for Coloring Rules, and preferences for preferences settings, it was mentioned that these files were saved in one of your Personal configuration directories, but I have left a full explanation of profiles and these configuration directories until now so that you would better understand what makes up a profile and why they are useful.

A profile is a collection of Wireshark configuration files customized for your specific needs and tastes in capture and display filters, coloring rules, columns and layouts, and so on for the particular environment you are working in. You can create one or more profiles and quickly reconfigure Wireshark to work best in differing environments by selecting the appropriate profile.

When you first install Wireshark, it operates with a default set of configuration files...

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