Guide to capturing packets

Start Wireshark by clicking on the Wireshark icon or type Wireshark in the command line. When Wireshark starts it launches the following screen and provides the following ways to capture packets:

The following table explains the various options that we have on the Start screen:

Sr. no.	Wireshark capture options	What is this?
1	Interface List	Opens up a live list of capture interfaces, and counts the incoming/outgoing packets
2	Start	You can choose an interface from the list and start capturing packets
3	Capture Options	Provides various options for capturing and displaying packets
4	Open Recent	Wireshark displays recently used packets

We will cover each capturing option in detail one by one.

Capturing packets with Interface Lists

Click on Interface List; Wireshark will show a list of available network interfaces in the system and which one is active, by showing packets going in and out of the Interface, as shown in the following screenshot:

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