Wireshark Profiles Repository

Since March 2017 – Over 200,000 Downloads!

Welcome Fellow Packet Analysts, Network Technicians/Engineers, Troubleshooters, and Wireshark users!

We have been asked countless times over the years to share, and provide a sharing place for, Wireshark Profiles.  You can also find these profiles on Github: https://github.com/amwalding/wireshark_profiles 

Wireshark profiles allow you, the user, to customize the Wireshark GUI, to tune Wireshark, to a particular protocol, to a particular view, or to a particular task.  This is accomplished by changing preferences, color rules, display and capture filters, columns and contents, and much more.

As most of you who are Wireshark users know, this is perhaps the most important capability of Wireshark that speeds troubleshooting and elimination of false positives.  Check out this video on the power of Wireshark Profiles:

 Yet there are almost no repositories for Wireshark profiles.  

What????

In fact, I just attended a Wireshark related Webinar where one of the presenters said (and I quote exactly) they “do not like sharing profiles”, because, they said “you don’t know what things have been set in the profiles that you yourself have not created”!

What????

Sounds to me like always starting from scratch is a great way to drive up their consulting hours while limiting knowledge share.

I mean, I get the point, someone could sneak something into the profile that is bad.  So you should be wary of this.  You should unzip a zipped profile and make sure it only contains TXT files.  That said, this is no reason to not share profiles.  It’s like saying you should not use open source software because you never know who inserted something into the code.  Possible, but in the long run, as long as you are watchful and wary, not sharing profiles is ridiculous.  

We try to state below what changes we have made, additions to, etc. the profiles we offer.  WE DO NOT POST ANYTHING WE WOULD CONSIDER SHADY.

How To Use Our Repository Profiles

It is now super easy to add our profiles to your Wireshark system.

Simply download the profile you want (they are all zipped).

Then from your Wireshark GUI, right click on the lower right corner of the Wireshark GUI – in the Profile box:

Then simply select: Import> from zip file, and pick the file from your downloads directory.

Done!  Now you can switch to the profile and check it out!

These profiles will save you a TON of time in creation and troubleshooting.  Support us in any way you can.  You can simply buy us a cup of coffee! Or you can support us by clicking the patron link.  In either case – thank you in advance.

We have always shared our profiles, but we have never opened up a place for others to share back!  So after much consideration, we have decided to give this a try!  

Contribute to Our Profile Repository

We have always had the position that it would be unsafe to simply open this up to anyone who wishes to upload anything.  So if you wish to contribute a profile, or you modify/improve one of these profiles, please zip up the profile and email me (andyw@cellstream.com)!  I will post sent profiles here.

Also, feel free to browse our other Wireshark related articles and information here!

Click on the Profile Title to get more information, or click on the download button to the right to simply download the ZIP

Profiles - There are multiple pages...

Title
IETF QUIC Protocol Profile – no decryption
1 2264 downloads
A C15 and MGCP profile for Wireshark
1 17 downloads
A HTTP Profile with HDR Reassembly ON for Wireshark
1 40 downloads
HTTP profile with Header Reassembly turned off for Wireshark
1 27 downloads
IPv6 Super Profile (for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onwards)
1 4126 downloads
UDP Profile
1 195 downloads
TCP Delta Time Analysis Profile for Wireshark
1 635 downloads
TCP SEQ Analysis Profile for Wireshark
1 577 downloads
LTE Profile
1 297 downloads
IEC 60870-5 Profile
1 248 downloads
TCP SACK Analysis Profile for Wireshark
1 565 downloads
NVMe Profile for Wireshark
1 260 downloads
NVMe-oF Profile for Wireshark
1 242 downloads
iSCSI Profile for Wireshark
1 262 downloads
L2 RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Profile for Wireshark
1 260 downloads
GRE Tunnel Profile
1 625 downloads
GVSP Protocol Profile
1 473 downloads
A SMB protocol Profile for Wireshark
1 647 downloads
Video Traffic Profile
1 1079 downloads
An MGCP Profile
1 403 downloads
A profile specifically for Check Point Firewalls
1 536 downloads
5G Diameter Protocol Profile
1 759 downloads
5G SCTP Profile
1 897 downloads
A Security Focused Profile (not Wireless Security) for Wireshark
1 1212 downloads
Deep Space Networking: a DTN profile from Laura Chappell
1 1469 downloads
TFTP Protocol Profile with Packet Diagram (Wireshark v3.3.0 and later)
1 1611 downloads
A Better Default profile with Redaction (for v3.4.0 and later)
1 1755 downloads
A Better Default profile with Packet Diagram (for v3.4.0 and later)
1 2791 downloads
USB Capture Profile
1 2170 downloads
WLAN Wi-Fi Security Profile
1 2513 downloads
WLAN Wi-Fi Timing Profile
1 2282 downloads
IETF QUIC Protocol Profile with decryption
1 2251 downloads
DHCPv4 Profile
1 3120 downloads
Jeff Carrell’s IPv6 Profile
1 1980 downloads
An Ethernet L2 Profile (Wireshark 3.4.0 an onwards)
1 3016 downloads
GQUIC Protocol Profile
1 4076 downloads
A Simple TCP Profile
1 4731 downloads
A DNS Profile for Wireshark
1 5782 downloads
An OpenFlow protocol Profile
1 2944 downloads
TLS Focus Profile (updated for Wireshark 3.4.0 and onward)
1 4528 downloads
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