Wireshark User's Guide Wireshark User's Guide 20996 for Wireshark 0.99.5 Ulf Lamping, Richard Sharpe, NS Computer Software and Services P/L Ed Warnicke, Wireshark User's Guide: 20996 for Wireshark 0.99.5 by Ulf Lamping, Richard Sharpe, and Ed Warnicke Copyright © 2004-2007 Ulf Lamping Richard Sharpe Ed Warnicke Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. All logos and trademarks in this document are property of their respective owner. [...]... experiences to wireshark- dev[AT ]wireshark. org 5 Introduction 1.3 Where to get Wireshark? You can get the latest copy of the program from the Wireshark website: http://www .wireshark. org/download.html The website allows you to choose from among several mirrors for downloading A new Wireshark version will typically become available every 4-8 weeks If you want to be notified about new Wireshark releases,... If you have problems, or need help with Wireshark, there are several places that may be of interest to you (well, besides this guide of course) 1.6.1 Website You will find lots of useful information on the Wireshark homepage at http://www .wireshark. org 1.6.2 Wiki The Wireshark Wiki at http://wiki .wireshark. org provides a wide range of information related to Wireshark and packet capturing in general... appear about every 4-8 weeks wireshark- users This list is for users of Wireshark People post questions about building and using Wireshark, others (hopefully) provide answers wireshark- dev This list is for Wireshark developers If you want to start developing a protocol dissector, join this list You can subscribe to each of these lists from the Wireshark web site: http://www .wireshark. org Simply select... build Wireshark for Windows from the sources, have a look at the Development Wiki: http://wiki .wireshark. org/Development for the latest available development documentation 20 Building and Installing Wireshark 2.8 Installing Wireshark under Windows In this section we explore installing Wireshark under Windows from the binary packages 2.8.1 Install Wireshark You may acquire a binary installer of Wireshark. .. keeping it in tune with what is happening with Wireshark So if Wireshark is updated (which is done often), you can get a new Wireshark version from the website and your changes will already be included without any effort for you The Wireshark source code and binary kits for some platforms are all available on the download page of the Wireshark website: http://www .wireshark. org/download.html 8 Introduction... to Wireshark, either as plugins, or built into the source, and they often do! 1.1.8 What Wireshark is not Here are some things Wireshark does not provide: • Wireshark isn't an intrusion detection system It will not warn you when someone does strange things on your network that he/she isn't allowed to do However, if strange things happen, Wireshark might help you figure out what is really going on • Wireshark. .. under a new name: Wireshark 7 Introduction 1.5 Development and maintenance of Wireshark Wireshark was initially developed by Gerald Combs Ongoing development and maintenance of Wireshark is handled by the Wireshark team, a loose group of individuals who fix bugs and provide new functionality There have also been a large number of people who have contributed protocol dissectors to Wireshark, and it... to Wireshark by checking the about dialog box of Wireshark, or at the authors page on the Wireshark web site Wireshark is an open source software project, and is released under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) All source code is freely available under the GPL You are welcome to modify Wireshark to suit your own needs, and it would be appreciated if you contribute your improvements back to the Wireshark. .. the defaults! If you are unsure which settings to select, just keep the defaults 2.8.1.1 "Choose Components" page Wireshark (both Wireshark GTK1 and 2 user interfaces cannot be installed at the same time): • Wireshark GTK1 - Wireshark is a GUI network protocol analyzer • Wireshark GTK2 - Wireshark is a GUI network protocol analyzer (using the modern GTK2 GUI toolkit, recommended) • GTK-Wimp - GTKWimp... Introduction 12 Chapter 2 Building and Installing Wireshark 2.1 Introduction As with all things, there must be a beginning, and so it is with Wireshark To use Wireshark, you must: • Obtain a binary package for your operating system, or • Obtain the source and build Wireshark for your operating system Currently, only two or three Linux distributions ship Wireshark, and they are commonly shipping an out-of-date . Wireshark User's Guide Wireshark User's Guide 20996 for Wireshark 0.99.5 Ulf Lamping, Richard Sharpe, NS Computer Software and Services P/L Ed Warnicke, Wireshark User's Guide: . 20 2.8. Installing Wireshark under Windows 21 2.8.1. Install Wireshark 21 2.8.2. Manual WinPcap Installation 23 2.8.3. Update Wireshark 23 2.8.4. Update WinPcap 23 2.8.5. Uninstall Wireshark 23 2.8.6 specific statistics windows 152 9. Customizing Wireshark 154 9.1. Introduction 154 9.2. Start Wireshark from the command line 155 Wireshark User's Guide vi 9.3. Packet colorization 160 9.4.