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Automatically Switch Configuration Profiles in Wireshark

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 have helped the […]

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A Minimized Dissector Configuration Profile for Wireshark

If you deal with enormous capture files, speeding up your work process is crucial. Watch this video for a demonstration and example of how you can solve this issue: What I have below is a minimized dissector profile you can use. This is a minimized dissector profile that will reduce Wireshark crashes, speed your carving/parsing

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A Wireshark Wi-Fi WLAN Troubleshooting Configuration Profile

 For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting Wi-Fi Wireless networks, we would like to offer a great default profile for WiFi.   Let’s make no bones about this capturing and analyzing Wi-Fi traffic is not as easy (you have to be in Monitor Mode) as just selecting this profile and clicking capture. 

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A Wireshark Basic BGP Configuration Profile

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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A Wireshark TCP Troubleshooting Configuration Profile

  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

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A Wireshark IPv4 Configuration Profile

For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv4, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv4. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities.  Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses.  Let’s

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A Wireshark DNS Configuration Profile

For those of you who love Wireshark and are needing to analyze DNS Queries and Responses, we have the profile for you. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities.  Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses.  Let’s

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A Wireshark ARP Configuration Profile

For those of you who love Wireshark and are needing to analyze ARP packets, we have the profile for you. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities.  Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses.  Let’s say you

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How do I reset my “Default” profile in Wireshark?

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     This is a commonly asked question that usually results from users learning the can have different profiles after they have spent months constantly changing the default profile! Luckily

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