Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition
by Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yoram Orzach, Yogesh Ramdoss
Getting ready
To start working with Wireshark, go to the Wireshark website and download the latest version of the tool.
An updated version of Wireshark can be found on the website http://www.wireshark.org/; choose Download. This brings you the Download Wireshark page. Download the latest Wireshark Version 2.X.X stable release that is available at https://www.wireshark.org/#download.
Each Wireshark Windows package comes with the latest stable release of WinPcap, which is required for live packet capture. The WinPcap driver is a Windows version of the UNIX libpcap library for traffic capture.
During the installation, you will get the package's installation window, presented in the following screenshot:
Usually in these setup windows, we simply ...
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