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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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Annotating and printing packets

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

  • How to use the new annotation feature, also known as comments
  • How to find packets that have annotations, and there are multiple ways of doing so
  • How to print packets

Now, let's get some packets to work with. I'm going to start a quick capture.

To create comments for a packet capture, the entire capture itself, you can do so in the bottom left-hand corner of Wireshark. You see there are two icons down there: one's a circle icon called the expert information we'll get into in a future section, and there's a pencil with a packet capture icon. If you do a mouseover on a pencil icon, it'll say Open the Capture File Properties dialog:

Click on that and it will open up a pop-up window that gives you a bunch of different information for the capture itself...

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