The Preferences menu enables us to adapt the display to the way we want to see it, and configuring protocol preferences provides us with the ability to change the way that Wireshark captures and presents common protocols. In this recipe, we will learn how to configure the most common protocols.
Configuring the user interface, and global and protocol preferences
Getting ready
Go to Preferences in the Edit menu, and you will see the following window:
In the Preferences window, we have menus from which we choose what we want to configure, while the configuration parameters appear on the right.