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Explain Wireshark Filters

One of the best and must usale features of Wireshark is the Wireshark Capture Filters and Wireshark Display Filters. Filters allow you to view the capture the way you need to see it so you can troubleshoot the issues at hand. Here are several filters to get you started. Wireshark Capture Filters Capture filters limit the captured packets by the filter. Meaning if the packets don’t match the filter, Wireshark won’t save them. Here are some examples of capture filters: host IP-address: this filter limits the capture to traffic to and from the IP address net 192.168.0.0/24: this filter captures all traffic on the subnet. dst host IP-address: capture packets sent to the specified host. port 53: capture traffic on port 53 only. port not 53 and not arp: capture all traffic except DNS and ARP traffic Wireshark Display Filters Wireshark Display Filters change the view of the capture during analysis. After you have stopped the packet capture, you use display filters to narrow down...