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Mastering Wireshark 2

You're reading from   Mastering Wireshark 2 Develop skills for network analysis and address a wide range of information security threats

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626521
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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What's new in Wireshark 2?


There's a new version of Wireshark out—a new major version that has many interesting features. Here, you can see the new Qt GUI:

It looks very similar to the Legacy GTK GUI, with few minor tweaks. The main menu bar here has had some icons changed and removed; the general interface is a little bit cleaner. All the general functionality, though, is all the same. Capture options are on the upper left-hand side and they are denoted by a gear icon. When you click on the gear icon, you have multiple tabs for Input options, Output options, and general Options:

When you click on Edit | Preferences..., you can see the preferences window, as shown in the following screenshot. Options such as Show up to makes it easy to navigate and view what you need to see:

As shown in the following screenshot, on the left-hand side, you can see the related packets diagram show up, based on what you select. So if you select different packets, this will change in size and shape; and what might...

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