What devices do you have inside your network? It’s important to keep in mind that different kinds of devices will transmit different packets.

Do you have promiscuous mode supported? If you do, this will allow your device to collect packets that are not originally intended for your device.

The process of analysis in Wireshark represents monitoring of different protocols and data inside a network.īefore we start with the process of analysis, make sure you know the type of traffic you are looking to analyze, and various types of devices that emit traffic: HTTP with Secure Sockets Layer – HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS) If you want to learn about the most common ones, check out the following list: Port numberĭynamic Host Configuration Protocol – DHCP Different ports are used for different protocols. And public ports are ports from 49152-65535, they can be used by any service. Then, from 1024 to 49151 are registered ports – they are assigned by ICANN to a specific service. They can be divided into three different categories: ports from 0 – 1023 are well-known ports, and they are assigned to common services and protocols. The 'Filter Expression' dialog box can help you build display filters.There are 65,535 ports. For display filters, try the display filters page on the Wireshark wiki. For example, to capture only packets sent to port 80, use: dst tcp port 80Ĭouple that with an http display filter, or use: tcp.dstport = 80 & httpįor more on capture filters, read ' Filtering while capturing' from the Wireshark user guide, the capture filters page on the Wireshark wiki, or pcap-filter (7) man page.

If you want to measure the number of connections rather than the amount of data, you can limit the capture or display filters to one side of the communication. Note that a filter of http is not equivalent to the other two, which will include handshake and termination packets. Ping packets should use an ICMP type of 8 (echo) or 0 (echo reply), so you could use a capture filter of: icmpĪnd a display filter of: icmp.type = 8 || icmp.type = 0įor HTTP, you can use a capture filter of: tcp port 80

Wireshark filter protocol