Adding Packet Comments in Wireshark

Just a quick tip on how to add packet comments to your packet captures.

The use cases are fairly straight forward:  perhaps you want to add comments as you troubleshoot a packet capture, or perhaps you want to record what you found for later demonstration, or perhaps you just want to remember two years later what happened in a particular packet capture.

Check out this video that demonstrates how this feature works and how you can use it:

I hope you find this article and its content helpful. 


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