Post Views: 23,009 For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting WLAN Wi-Fi Wireless networks, we would like to offer a great profile for WLAN/Wi-Fi that focuses on the timing issues of Wi-Fi/WLAN packets. Consider the areas you would want to start with: Timing information (Duration – NAV, Preamble, and IFS) Special Colorization […]
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Post Views: 13,883 This was long overdue! Added columns for the key DHCP information. Added display filters and coloring rules for the various DHCP message types. Added a display filter for any non-standard port DHCP messages.
Post Views: 4,048 Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Just introduced this week is a terminal version of tshark that looks like the Wireshark GUI call termshark. Why? Let’s say you run either Virtual Machines or
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Post Views: 12,251 As explained in our prior article on QUIC, you may be seeing a lot of QUIC traffic in your packet captures. Assuming you have read that article, and understand that all QUIC traffic is encrypted, you know the only way was to see some of the details is using Chrome itself. Today
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Post Views: 2,173 Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture As those who have studied our Wireless Profile (available from the Profile Repository) know, there are a number of great display filters used to hunt down issues
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Post Views: 17,536 Updated 07/23/26 from feedback! Thanks to your comments! Enjoy! Every application turn starts with DNS! This is a great profile for DNS learning, troubleshooting, and analysis. The updated Wireshark DNS Analysis Profile takes DNS troubleshooting to the next level by giving analysts immediate visibility into both traditional and modern encrypted DNS traffic.
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Post Views: 1,913 Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture For those of you who love Wireshark and are asking the question: How do I find what HTTPS site were visited within a capture? I have a
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Post Views: 2,991 Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Great question, and one I get all the time. As most of you know, the manufacturer of a networking device that uses MAC addressing can be
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Post Views: 7,690 Check out these great references as well: Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Our other Wi-Fi related articles As many of my clients and students know, I have always been astonished at how hard it is to capture the Wi-Fi traffic in Windows. This article
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Post Views: 88,130 For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting WLAN Wi-Fi Wireless networks, we would like to offer a great default profile for WLAN/Wi-Fi networks. Consider the areas you would want to start with: Special Colorization based on various packet types – check Display Filters and Display Filter buttons to quickly
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Post Views: 2,298 Let’s say you deal with HUGE packet captures and you need to parse or carve out certain types of packets or conversations from the source. This is particularly true for folks that use Ring Buffers, or folks who do huge captures over long time period with fast interfaces. If you do this
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Post Views: 98,520 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
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