Chapter 4: Exploring the Wireshark Interface

When you launch Wireshark for the first time, it's sometimes puzzling having to navigate the interface until you are familiar with all of the elements. Once you have a grasp of all the components, toolbars, and menu choices, you can capture and analyze traffic more efficiently. In this chapter, we'll start by exploring the Wireshark interface and reviewing all of the essentials of the welcome screen, including the sparklines, capture filters, and interfaces.

Although Wireshark currently has over 10 menu choices, in most cases, you'll find that there are a few that are more commonly accessed. So that you are more confident when moving about the interface, we'll examine the File menu, where you can open a file, save, print, and export a capture. We'll also investigate the Edit menu, where you can mark packets, set time references, and add comments. Finally, we'll take a look at the View menu so that you can...