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Wireshark

Wireshark Common Features

Display Filter

Display filters can use several different parameters as matching criteria, such as IP address, protocol, port number, and some protocol header’s parameters. In addition, users use some conditionals and concatenation operators to create more complex expressions. Users can combine different expressions to filter out a precise range of packets. All packets displayed can be filtered by bytes within the packets.

A display filter follows this structure:

[not] Expression [and|or] [not] Expression

Often used operators:

Operator Description
== Equal
!= Not Equal
> Greater Than
< Less Than
>= Greater Than or Equal To
<= Less Than or Equal To
&& AND
|| OR
! NOT

Filter Methods

There are many ways to do display filter:

  • Display filter expression

    Analyze --> Display Filter Expression

filter_window

  • Display filter toolbar

filter_tool

  • Right-clicking on a specific filed and Apply Selected As Filter

filter_select

Note

You can obtain the complex filtering expression with this method.

Statistics Information

Protocol Hierarchy

Statistics --> Protocol Hierarchy

A hierarchy of all the protocols contained in the file.

pro_his

Conversations

Statistics --> Conversations

All traffic occurring between IP addresses of a particular endpoint.

Conversation

Note

  • Check the IP address that sent or received many data streams. If you know that server, then the problem is solved. However, it’s possible that is it just some device scanning the network or generating a large amount of data.

  • Check for scan patterns. If a device made one scan, then that’s likely normal. For example, SNMP software sent a ping message to find the network. However, if there are many scans, then something fishy is happening.

Endpoints

Statistics --> Endpoints

List all endpoints found by Wireshark.

points

HTTP - Packet Counter

Statistics --> HTTP --> Packet Counter

Count HTTP packets.

pac_count


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