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What is the Adapter for loopback traffic capture in Wireshark?

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Post Views: 369 Using a loopback adapter (also called a local loopback interface) for packet capture in Wireshark allows you to capture traffic that stays within your own computer — for example, packets exchanged between local applications via localhost or 127.0.0.1. Normally, this traffic never reaches a physical network interface, so a loopback capture is […]

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Wireshark TCP Analysis Flags Cheat Sheet

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Post Views: 4,390 Below is a great TCP Analysis Flags Cheat Sheet for Wireshark. These are essentially Display Filters. They are all included in our TCP troubleshooting profile you can find here. Analysis Flags/Display filter Trigger Impact/Meaning/Notes tcp.analysis.ack_lost_segment A segment that is not in the trace has been acknowledged Indicates that not all packets have been recorded or a route has been

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Automatically Switch Configuration Profiles in Wireshark

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Post Views: 3,153 As most of my readers, students, and clients know, I absolutely love Wireshark. I deeply am infatuated with Wireshark’s Profiles, more properly called configuration profiles. So much so that many years ago now, I set up the first Wireshark Profiles Repository. 100’s of thousands of downloads have resulted, and I hope I

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Web Sites that can be Companion Tools to Wireshark

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Post Views: 2,429 In our prior article on companion tools for Wireshark (link), we provided a list of tools that network analysts, operations, maintainers or just curious people should consider. All these were stand alone tools. What about Internet/Web Browser based sites that you may find useful? This thought raises certain issues, like this scenario:

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Stand Alone Companion Tools to Wireshark

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Post Views: 3,098 Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer used by network professionals for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Companion tools can enhance its functionality or help in related tasks. If you are looking for hard tools we have a list of what we carry in our “go bag” here. Here are some websites

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Zero-to-Hero – Wireshark TCP Conversation Completeness

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Post Views: 16,982 Introduced in version 3.6 and later is a new Wireshark expert analysis process called TCP Completeness. At first this was quite confusing, but once you get to know what is going on, you come to understand that you can use this new feature to find certain types of TCP issues. We included

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Important Updates to Wireshark for Voice and VoIP

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Post Views: 1,282 Hi everyone!  Happy Thanksgiving 2021. Just released – Wireshark 3.6.0!!!  Why is this important to me, you, and everyone who troubleshoots Voice traffic using Wireshark?  Well, there are many changes to the voice related functionality in Wireshark in this (actually as part of the development 3.5.0 – you can read more on

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Wireshark 3.5 Development Release adds significant voice upgrades

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Post Views: 18,943 Hi Everyone! If you are like me, you use Wireshark every day.  For me that means troubleshooting many different network applications and traffic types, including Voice traffic – VoIP. With the development release of Wireshark version 3.5, the Wireshark folks announced some significant changes coming to the Voice capabilities set within Wireshark,

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