Chapter 10. Customizing Wireshark

Wireshark

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Chapter 10. Customizing Wireshark

Table of Contents

10.1. Introduction
10.2. Start Wireshark from the command line
10.3. Packet colorization
10.4. Control Protocol dissection
10.4.1. The "Enabled Protocols" dialog box
10.4.2. User Specified Decodes
10.4.3. Show User Specified Decodes
10.5. Preferences
10.5.1. Interface Options
10.6. Configuration Profiles
10.7. User Table
10.8. Display Filter Macros
10.9. ESS Category Attributes
10.10. GeoIP Database Paths
10.11. IKEv2 decryption table
10.12. Object Identifiers
10.13. PRES Users Context List
10.14. SCCP users Table
10.15. SMI (MIB and PIB) Modules
10.16. SMI (MIB and PIB) Paths
10.17. SNMP Enterprise Specific Trap Types
10.18. SNMP users Table
10.19. Tektronix K12xx/15 RF5 protocols Table
10.20. User DLTs protocol table

10.1. Introduction

Wireshark's default behaviour will usually suit your needs pretty well. However, as you become more familiar with Wireshark, it can be customized in various ways to suit your needs even better. In this chapter we explore:

  • How to start Wireshark with command line parameters

  • How to colorize the packet list

  • How to control protocol dissection

  • How to use the various preference settings

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