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Wireshark User's Guide
- Preface
- Introduction
- Building and Installing Wireshark
- User Interface
Introduction- Start Wireshark
- The Main window
- The Menu
- The "File" menu
- The "Edit" menu
- The "View" menu
- The "Go" menu
- The "Capture" menu
- The "Analyze" menu
- The "Statistics" menu
- The "Help" menu
- The "Main" toolbar
- The "Filter" toolbar
- The "Packet List" pane
- The "Packet Details" pane
- The "Packet Bytes" pane
The Statusbar
- Capturing Live Network Data
- File Input / Output and Printing
- Working with captured packets
- Advanced Topics
- Statistics
- Customizing Wireshark
- Lua Support in Wireshark
- Introduction
- Example of Dissector written in Lua
- Example of Listener written in Lua
- Wireshark's Lua API Reference Manual
- saving capture files
- obtaining dissection data
- GUI support
- TextWindow
- Non Method Functions
- post-dissection packet analysis
- obtaining packet information
- Address
- Column
- Columns
- Pinfo
- pinfo.number
- pinfo.len
- pinfo.caplen
- pinfo.abs_ts
- pinfo.rel_ts
- pinfo.delta_ts
- pinfo.delta_dis_ts
- pinfo.visited
- pinfo.src
- pinfo.dst
- pinfo.lo
- pinfo.hi
- pinfo.dl_src
- pinfo.dl_dst
- pinfo.net_src
- pinfo.net_dst
- pinfo.ptype
- pinfo.src_port
- pinfo.dst_port
- pinfo.ipproto
- pinfo.circuit_id
- pinfo.match
- pinfo.curr_proto
- pinfo.columns
- pinfo.cols
- functions for writing dissectors
- Dissector
- DissectorTable
- Pref
- Prefs
- Proto
- ProtoField
- ProtoField.new(name, abbr, type, [valuestring], [base], [mask], [descr])
- ProtoField.uint8(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.uint16(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.uint24(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.uint32(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.uint64(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.int8(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.int16(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.int24(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.int32(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.int64(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.framenum(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- ProtoField.ipv4(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.ipv6(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.ether(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.float(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.double(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.string(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.strigz(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.bytes(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.ubytes(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.guid(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.oid(abbr, [name], [desc])
- ProtoField.bool(abbr, [name], [desc])
- Non Method Functions
- adding information to the dissection tree
- functions for handling packet data
- ByteArray
- Tvb
- TvbRange
- Utility Functions
- Files and Folders
- Protocols and Protocol Fields
- Wireshark Messages
- Related command line tools
- Introduction
- tshark: Terminal-based Wireshark
- tcpdump: Capturing with tcpdump for viewing with Wireshark
- dumpcap: Capturing with dumpcap for viewing with Wireshark
- capinfos: Print information about capture files
- editcap: Edit capture files
- mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one
- text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures
- idl2wrs: Creating dissectors from CORBA IDL files
- This Document's License (GPL)
The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project and funding to do this documentation.
Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.
Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.
The authors would also like to thank the following people for their helpful feedback on this document:
Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
Graeme Hewson, for a lot of grammatical corrections.
The authors would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the Wireshark project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:
Scott Renfro from whose mergecap man page Section D.7, “mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one ” is derived.
Ashok Narayanan from whose text2pcap man page Section D.8, “text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures ” is derived.
Frank Singleton from whose
README.idl2wrsSection D.9, “idl2wrs: Creating dissectors from CORBA IDL files ” is derived.