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Exploring Wireshark's advanced features

Exploring Wireshark's advanced features

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Exploring Wireshark's advanced features

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- [Instructor] Once you get used to the basic features of Wireshark, it's time to learn some more advanced features to make your life easier when using Wireshark. One of these useful extra Wireshark features is to use filters. Wireshark sometimes gives you the experience of information overload because there's just so much to review. Therefore, knowing how to use filters is essential to avoid this information overload problem. In our previous lesson, we already used a filter to hide network messages other than those using transmission control protocol or TCP. Another useful feature is DNS resolution. Usually, you get a bunch of numeric IP addresses in your Wireshark display. Resolving these IP addresses into more meaningful domain names allows you to spot hosts of your interest more quickly. Another useful feature is to start your Wireshark program and to be able to capture your packets right away without really having to navigate through the graphical user interface or GUI and then…

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