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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide
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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide

by Charit Mishra
June 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
164 pages
3h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Command line-fu

With the default installation of Wireshark, a command-line version of protocol analyser called  Tshark also gets installed. There are a good number of CUI-based sniffing tools available, including Capinfos, Dumpcap, Editcap, Mergecap, Rawshark, Reordercap, Text2pcap, and Tshark.

The most common and widely used command-line tool for protocol analysis purposes is Tshark, which can capture live traffic and analyze saved capture files. Tshark uses the pcap library to capture and translate the packets. Just like Wireshark's filtering option are available in Tshark too. Applications like Tshark prove themselves worthy, with benefits such as low memory requirement, easy installation, and simple command sets to run the sniffer.

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