
I also prefer formatting the Time column to show the precision of Milliseconds:Īlthough it’s useful to have the Time column showing the seconds since the beginning of capture, wouldn’t it be useful to see the seconds since the previous packet too? Yes, it would. If you can read this, you are Neo from the Matrix, and you can also speak fluent Fax! Select a packet from the Packet List, and you can explore every element of the packet here.
Section 1 is the Packet List and shows a summary of individual packet information. The captured packets are displayed in 3 sections of the window: On opening Wireshark for the first time, the following window is shown:Īll you need to do to start capturing packets is click a network interface: You may choose to ignore the “Show News” tickbox too, but if you do, your personal email address and phone number will be harvested from your PC and subscribed to a plethora of marketing sites. Finally click Finish and run your shiny new Wireshark program:. The Wireshark installer will then jump back into action. Click Finish once the WinPcap installation is complete:. Does your PC boot up too quickly? If so, allow one more program to start at boot time:. Click Next again, because one welcome screen just isn’t enough!. Wireshark will start to install, but it will also install WinPcap. Install WinPcap – if you don’t have it installed already – then click Next:. Choose where to install the application files, then click Next:. Select how many shortcuts you would like cluttering up your Start Menu and Desktop, then click Next:.
Select the components you want to use, then click Next.
Read and accept every single word of the License Agreement – like you always do 😛 – then click I Agree:. Open the downloaded file and click Next:. Through absorbing several articles, videos, and forum posts, I think I have found a better way of troubleshooting slow network applications. I’ve had some fun today troubleshooting the intermittent network slow down we get at work.