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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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Saving and exporting packets

In this section, we'll take a look at the following subtopics:

  • How to save packet captures
  • How to save selected sections of packets, individual packets, and ranges of packets
  • How to export packets into other formats
  • How to export raw packet data from the capture that you selected

Now that we have Wireshark up and running, let's capture some traffic. We'll select the Local Area Connection, and we could either double-click as I mentioned or we'll start the capture up at the top. And we will have some packets coming in. So now, if I want to save this capture (the entire capture—all the packets that I just captured) I'll go to File | Save As...; and from here, I can simply choose a filename. So, we'll call it packets. And you'll see in the Save as type, I chose the file as pcapng:

So, pcapng is the next...

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