You're reading from Learn Wireshark A definitive guide to expertly analyzing protocols and troubleshooting networks using Wireshark

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231679

Length 606 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

TCP

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Lisa Bock

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Traffic Capture Overview

2. Chapter 1: Appreciating Traffic Analysis FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using Wireshark

4. Chapter 3: Installing Wireshark

5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Wireshark Interface

6. Part 2 Getting Started with Wireshark

7. Chapter 5: Tapping into the Data Stream

8. Chapter 6: Personalizing the Interface

9. Chapter 7: Using Display and Capture Filters

10. Chapter 8: Outlining the OSI Model

11. Part 3 The Internet Suite TCP/IP

12. Chapter 9: Decoding TCP and UDP

13. Chapter 10: Managing TCP Connections

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing IPv4 and IPv6

15. Chapter 12: Discovering ICMP

16. Part 4 Deep Packet Analysis of Common Protocols

17. Chapter 13: Diving into DNS

18. Chapter 14: Examining DHCP

19. Chapter 15: Decoding HTTP

20. Chapter 16: Understanding ARP

21. Part 5 Working with Packet Captures

22. Chapter 17: Determining Network Latency Issues

23. Chapter 18: Subsetting, Saving, and Exporting Captures

24. Chapter 19: Discovering I/O and Stream Graphs

25. Chapter 20: Using CloudShark for Packet Analysis

26. Assessments

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Personalizing the layout

Although Wireshark is functional in default mode, it's easy to modify appearance and layout to optimize your workflow. In addition to personalizing layout and general appearance, you can modify many other components. For example, you can change the language, customize the number of icons, recent filters, and folders, and define what you want to appear in the status bar. Let's start with how you can customize the appearance.

Altering the appearance

In Wireshark, you can tailor the general appearance in the following ways:

Identify the default location to open files.
List how many display filters to show.
Define how you want the main toolbar to appear.

To view all the choices where you can make and modify your selections, go to Edit and then Preferences, which will bring up a dialog box. Once there, expand Appearance, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.1 – The Wireshark Preferences...