These are our Wireshark Profiles in ZIP format. Import these to your Wireshark installation. Wireshark Profiles are critically important because they allow users to preserve, reuse, and rapidly switch between purpose-built analysis environments without reconfiguring the tool each time. For anyone doing repeatable packet analysis—especially across different protocols, customers, or troubleshooting scenarios—profiles transform Wireshark from a generic packet viewer into a disciplined analytical instrument.
Most Wireshark users agree that the default profile is a very simple starting point, but soon after need a better starting point when troubleshooting. The default should be a profile that you can start troubleshooting from. It should be a place where you can check off some important basics as you begin your evidence gathering. […]
A Better Default Profile (for Wireshark ver 3.4.0 and later) Read More »
If you support MPLS operations in your network, then you need to have an MPLS profile. In this case, we have an LDP profile for you to use. This is great for fundamental MPLS operations involving LDP. As with any Profile for Wireshark, to add this profile, within Wireshark, click on Help> About Wireshark> then
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting BGP, we would like to offer a great default profile for basic BGP. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in basic BGP: Being able to filter BGP packets quickly, as well as finding potentially bogus BGP Colorizing BGP message
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv6, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv6. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in IPv6: Certainly anything having to do with ICMPv6 Being able to find packets with certain extension headers Being able to
IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement (NA) Profile (for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv6, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv6. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in IPv6: Certainly anything having to do with ICMPv6 Being able to find packets with certain extension headers Being able to
IPv6 Neighbor Solicitation (NS) Profile (for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv6, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv6. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in IPv6: Certainly anything having to do with ICMPv6 Being able to find packets with certain extension headers Being able to
IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) Profile (for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv6, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv6. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in IPv6: Certainly anything having to do with ICMPv6 Being able to find packets with certain extension headers Being able to
IPv6 Default Profile (for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
Most network engineers and technicians are quickly discovering that with “everything over IP” we are required to understand exactly what this means. For a lot of the standard, traditional data communications between clients and servers this means transport over TCP. Furthermore, it requires the ability to troubleshoot TCP. To troubleshoot TCP you have to look
A Wireshark TCP Troubleshooting Profile (Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
Thanks to your comments! Enjoy! Most network engineers and technicians are quickly discovering that with “everything over IP” we are required to understand exactly what this means. Traditionally, for most data communications this means transport IPv4 over TCP (although QUIC over UDP is gaining major momentum). We are finding that IPv6 represents more than 50%
A Wireshark TCP IPv6 Focused Troubleshooting Profile (Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards) Read More »
