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Here’s why people may want to use Wireshark: This brought Wireshark lots of community support, removing the cost as a barrier and making room for a wide range of training opportunities. The software is open-source and supports all major platforms. That all changed with the advent of this app. Wireshark also ingests and analyzes traffic from various other protocol analyzers, making it straightforward to review past traffic at specific points.īefore Wireshark, network tracking tools used to be very expensive or proprietary. This makes it equally convenient for first-timers as well as for network monitoring professionals. Refer to the wireshark-filter man page for more information about the slice operator and Wireshark display filters in general.Wireshark comes with the top-notch ability to filter packets during capture and upon analysis with different complexity levels. For example, if the source address was 50.xxx.xxx.100 and the destination address was .152, then the packet would still match the filter, as the 1st byte of the source address would match as well as the last byte of the destination address. Unfortunately, this doesn't work reliably because it will actually match either the 1st byte of either the source or destination addresses as well as the 4th byte of either the source or destination IP addresses.

Note that you might be tempted to use a simpler filter such as: ip.addr=32 & ip.addr=98 This filter also avoids any potential problems with whether name resolution is enabled or not, as ip.host isn't necessarily guaranteed to match "\.152$" if name resolution is enabled. The filter uses the slice operator to isolate the 1st and 4th bytes of the source and destination IP address fields. Those values, 32 and 98 are hexadecimal values for 50 and 152, respectively.