Chapter 5. Filters

Introduction

When capturing packets from a network interface, Wireshark’s default behavior is to capture all of the packets provided by the operating system’s (OSes) device driver. On a lightly loaded home network this is not a problem; however, on a busy network at a large enterprise, the deluge of packets would ...

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