Chapter 6: Personalizing the Interface

Everyone likes to arrange their desks in their own way. Working with Wireshark is no different, as you can personalize the settings to suit your needs. In this chapter, we'll dive into the Wireshark interface and look at ways to enhance the appearance and layout, as well as create custom configuration profiles. You'll gain a better appreciation of how you can design the interface to meet your specifications and evaluate ways to manipulate columns, change the font, and fine-tune color choices.

So that you get a better understanding of how to document capture information in Wireshark, we'll review tips on how to add comments. You'll discover how to comment on a single packet or an entire capture. Finally, we'll step through the process of building and modifying a complex filter during packet analysis. We'll finish by learning how to create a button on the toolbar as a shortcut for commonly used filters in Wireshark...