Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Wireshark basics

In the previous section, we saw how to launch Wireshark, and we said that we can open a file that contains packets that we have already captured, and we can start analyzing them using Wireshark. In this section, we want to start sniffing packets and then generate some traffic in our Windows machine, and then we'll see how to analyze these packets using Wireshark. As we know, we first have to be the MITM to use Wireshark, and then the traffic that's generated in the Windows machine and is actually flowing through the eth0 interface, as we saw in the previous section. So, before we start capturing the packets, we need to go to the options by clicking the cog icon:

We can see all the options we can set, all the interfaces ...