How To Use Wireshark To Capture Packets

If we want to capture the network traffic on our wireless lan.

How to use wireshark to capture packets. As a network engineer or ethical hacker you can use wireshark to debug and secure your networks. Wireshark lets you capture each of these packets and inspect them for data. For example if you want to capture traffic on your wireless network click your wireless interface. Wireshark lets you listen to a live network after you establish a connection to it and capture and inspect packets on the fly. In the wireshark capture interfaces window select start.

Using these tools without permission is not suggested. To begin capturing packets with wireshark. Wireshark to a network engineer is similar to a microscope for a biologist. To select multiple networks hold the shift key as you make your selection. Let us take an example.

After downloading and installing wireshark you can launch it and double click the name of a network interface under capture to start capturing packets on that interface.