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Resolve MAC address by converting the MAC address to a human-readable format for example 28:cf:e9:1e:df:a9 will translate to 192.168.1.101.

Name resolution tries to resolve the numerical address (for example, the MAC address, the IP address, and port) to its corresponding name, under the category where these options are defined.

This option will tell you the size of data for each frame that should be captured by Wireshark this is useful when capturing the header frame or to keep the packet size small.

Enable promiscuous mode, which will allow the network interface to receive all packets.

Click on Capture Options, Wireshark will open the Capture Options dialog box.

Choose the live interface, where packets are going in and out.

Wireshark provides the flexibility to configure packet that need to be captured with various capture options. This doesn’t give the flexibility to see on which interface the packets are active users can configure the capture options by double clicking on the interface or by clicking on Capture Options: In Start options, users can multiselect or select the interface displayed in the list and then click on Start. A few of them are shown in the following diagram: The Interface name tells the network type by looking at the name of interface the user should understand what network the capture setup is associated with-for example, eth0 stands for Ethernet. If you want to capture packets on loopback ( 127.0.0.1), select the interface lo0. Capturing packets with Interface ListsĬlick on Interface List Wireshark will show a list of available network interfaces in the system and which one is active, by showing packets going in and out of the Interface, as shown in the following screenshot:Ĭhoose the right (live) interfaces and click on the Start button to start capturing packets. We will cover each capturing option in detail one by one. Provides various options for capturing and displaying packets You can choose an interface from the list and start capturing packets Opens up a live list of capture interfaces, and counts the incoming/outgoing packets

The following table explains the various options that we have in the Start screen: When Wireshark starts it launches the following screen and provides the following ways to capture packets: Start Wireshark by clicking on the Wireshark icon or type Wireshark in the command line. (For more resources related to this topic, see here.) Guide to capturing packets

Capturing packets with Wireshark start options.

Capturing packets with Wireshark interface lists.

In this article by Anish Nath, author of the book Packet Analysis with Wireshark, we will learn about the Wireshark GUI features, and see how it helps in capturing and analyzing packets effectively, by covering the following topics: