Filters can be applied either while capturing packets (Capture Filter) or when we need to find a particular packet from a captured file (Display Filter). While working on a LAN or while capturing packets on server that hosts many services, we can face problems in monitoring a particular protocol or service. Following are the formats in which Wireshark can save packets.įilters play a very important role in packet capture.
This is one of the major reasons which makes Wireshark the most popular packet capture tool Packets saved from other tools can also be opened inside Wireshark and it can save the capture packets in several formats so that other tools can also understand and analyze them. Wireshark supports a wide range of file formats to open or save data packets.
It can be considered as a Swiss army knife as it can be used under different circumstances such as network troubleshooting, security operations and to learn protocol internal working.
It is an open source network packet analyzer tool that captures data packets flowing over the network and presents them in an understandable form. Wireshark was developed by Gerald Combs in 1998.