Wireshark 1 9 User Guide User's For 1.9
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2015-07-27
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- Wireshark User's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Building and Installing Wireshark
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Obtaining the source and binary distributions
- 2.3. Before you build Wireshark under UNIX
- 2.4. Building Wireshark from source under UNIX
- 2.5. Installing the binaries under UNIX
- 2.6. Troubleshooting during the install on Unix
- 2.7. Building from source under Windows
- 2.8. Installing Wireshark under Windows
- Chapter 3. User Interface
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Start Wireshark
- 3.3. The Main window
- 3.4. The Menu
- 3.5. The "File" menu
- 3.6. The "Edit" menu
- 3.7. The "View" menu
- 3.8. The "Go" menu
- 3.9. The "Capture" menu
- 3.10. The "Analyze" menu
- 3.11. The "Statistics" menu
- 3.12. The "Telephony" menu
- 3.13. The "Tools" menu
- 3.14. The "Internals" menu
- 3.15. The "Help" menu
- 3.16. The "Main" toolbar
- 3.17. The "Filter" toolbar
- 3.18. The "Packet List" pane
- 3.19. The "Packet Details" pane
- 3.20. The "Packet Bytes" pane
- 3.21. The Statusbar
- Chapter 4. Capturing Live Network Data
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Prerequisites
- 4.3. Start Capturing
- 4.4. The "Capture Interfaces" dialog box
- 4.5. The "Capture Options" dialog box
- 4.6. The "Edit Interface Settings" dialog box
- 4.7. The "Add New Interfaces" dialog box
- 4.8. The "Remote Capture Interfaces" dialog box
- 4.9. The "Interface Details" dialog box
- 4.10. Capture files and file modes
- 4.11. Link-layer header type
- 4.12. Filtering while capturing
- 4.13. While a Capture is running ...
- Chapter 5. File Input / Output and Printing
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Open capture files
- 5.3. Saving captured packets
- 5.4. Merging capture files
- 5.5. Import text file
- 5.6. File Sets
- 5.7. Exporting data
- 5.7.1. The "Export as Plain Text File" dialog box
- 5.7.2. The "Export as PostScript File" dialog box
- 5.7.3. The "Export as CSV (Comma Separated Values) File" dialog box
- 5.7.4. The "Export as C Arrays (packet bytes) file" dialog box
- 5.7.5. The "Export as PSML File" dialog box
- 5.7.6. The "Export as PDML File" dialog box
- 5.7.7. The "Export selected packet bytes" dialog box
- 5.7.8. The "Export Objects" dialog box
- 5.8. Printing packets
- 5.9. The Packet Range frame
- 5.10. The Packet Format frame
- Chapter 6. Working with captured packets
- 6.1. Viewing packets you have captured
- 6.2. Pop-up menus
- 6.3. Filtering packets while viewing
- 6.4. Building display filter expressions
- 6.5. The "Filter Expression" dialog box
- 6.6. Defining and saving filters
- 6.7. Defining and saving filter macros
- 6.8. Finding packets
- 6.9. Go to a specific packet
- 6.10. Marking packets
- 6.11. Ignoring packets
- 6.12. Time display formats and time references
- Chapter 7. Advanced Topics
- Chapter 8. Statistics
- Chapter 9. Telephony
- Chapter 10. Customizing Wireshark
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Start Wireshark from the command line
- 10.3. Packet colorization
- 10.4. Control Protocol dissection
- 10.5. Preferences
- 10.6. Configuration Profiles
- 10.7. User Table
- 10.8. Display Filter Macros
- 10.9. ESS Category Attributes
- 10.10. GeoIP Database Paths
- 10.11. IKEv2 decryption table
- 10.12. Object Identifiers
- 10.13. PRES Users Context List
- 10.14. SCCP users Table
- 10.15. SMI (MIB and PIB) Modules
- 10.16. SMI (MIB and PIB) Paths
- 10.17. SNMP Enterprise Specific Trap Types
- 10.18. SNMP users Table
- 10.19. Tektronix K12xx/15 RF5 protocols Table
- 10.20. User DLTs protocol table
- Chapter 11. Lua Support in Wireshark
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Example of Dissector written in Lua
- 11.3. Example of Listener written in Lua
- 11.4. Wireshark's Lua API Reference Manual
- 11.5. Saving capture files
- 11.5.1. Dumper
- 11.5.2. PseudoHeader
- 11.6. Obtaining dissection data
- 11.6.1. Field
- 11.6.2. FieldInfo
- 11.6.2.1. fieldinfo:__len()
- 11.6.2.2. fieldinfo:__unm()
- 11.6.2.3. fieldinfo:__call()
- 11.6.2.4. fieldinfo:__tostring()
- 11.6.2.5. fieldinfo:__eq()
- 11.6.2.6. fieldinfo:__le()
- 11.6.2.7. fieldinfo:__lt()
- 11.6.2.8. fieldinfo.name
- 11.6.2.9. fieldinfo.label
- 11.6.2.10. fieldinfo.value
- 11.6.2.11. fieldinfo.len
- 11.6.2.12. fieldinfo.offset
- 11.6.3. Non Method Functions
- 11.7. GUI support
- 11.7.1. ProgDlg
- 11.7.2. TextWindow
- 11.7.2.1. TextWindow.new([title])
- 11.7.2.2. textwindow:set_atclose(action)
- 11.7.2.3. textwindow:set(text)
- 11.7.2.4. textwindow:append(text)
- 11.7.2.5. textwindow:prepend(text)
- 11.7.2.6. textwindow:clear()
- 11.7.2.7. textwindow:get_text()
- 11.7.2.8. textwindow:set_editable([editable])
- 11.7.2.9. textwindow:add_button(label, function)
- 11.7.3. Non Method Functions
- 11.7.3.1. gui_enabled()
- 11.7.3.2. register_menu(name, action, [group])
- 11.7.3.3. new_dialog(title, action, ...)
- 11.7.3.4. retap_packets()
- 11.7.3.5. copy_to_clipboard(text)
- 11.7.3.6. open_capture_file(filename, filter)
- 11.7.3.7. set_filter(text)
- 11.7.3.8. set_color_filter_slot(row, text)
- 11.7.3.9. apply_filter()
- 11.7.3.10. reload()
- 11.7.3.11. browser_open_url(url)
- 11.7.3.12. browser_open_data_file(filename)
- 11.8. Post-dissection packet analysis
- 11.9. Obtaining packet information
- 11.9.1. Address
- 11.9.2. Column
- 11.9.3. Columns
- 11.9.4. NSTime
- 11.9.5. Pinfo
- 11.9.5.1. pinfo.number
- 11.9.5.2. pinfo.len
- 11.9.5.3. pinfo.caplen
- 11.9.5.4. pinfo.abs_ts
- 11.9.5.5. pinfo.rel_ts
- 11.9.5.6. pinfo.delta_ts
- 11.9.5.7. pinfo.delta_dis_ts
- 11.9.5.8. pinfo.visited
- 11.9.5.9. pinfo.src
- 11.9.5.10. pinfo.dst
- 11.9.5.11. pinfo.lo
- 11.9.5.12. pinfo.hi
- 11.9.5.13. pinfo.dl_src
- 11.9.5.14. pinfo.dl_dst
- 11.9.5.15. pinfo.net_src
- 11.9.5.16. pinfo.net_dst
- 11.9.5.17. pinfo.ptype
- 11.9.5.18. pinfo.src_port
- 11.9.5.19. pinfo.dst_port
- 11.9.5.20. pinfo.ipproto
- 11.9.5.21. pinfo.circuit_id
- 11.9.5.22. pinfo.match
- 11.9.5.23. pinfo.curr_proto
- 11.9.5.24. pinfo.columns
- 11.9.5.25. pinfo.cols
- 11.9.5.26. pinfo.desegment_len
- 11.9.5.27. pinfo.desegment_offset
- 11.9.5.28. pinfo.private_data
- 11.9.5.29. pinfo.private
- 11.9.5.30. pinfo.ethertype
- 11.9.5.31. pinfo.fragmented
- 11.9.5.32. pinfo.in_error_pkt
- 11.9.5.33. pinfo.match_uint
- 11.9.5.34. pinfo.match_string
- 11.9.6. PrivateTable
- 11.10. Functions for writing dissectors
- 11.10.1. Dissector
- 11.10.2. DissectorTable
- 11.10.2.1. DissectorTable.new(tablename, [uiname], [type], [base])
- 11.10.2.2. DissectorTable.get(tablename)
- 11.10.2.3. dissectortable:add(pattern, dissector)
- 11.10.2.4. dissectortable:remove(pattern, dissector)
- 11.10.2.5. dissectortable:try(pattern, tvb, pinfo, tree)
- 11.10.2.6. dissectortable:get_dissector(pattern)
- 11.10.3. Pref
- 11.10.4. Prefs
- 11.10.5. Proto
- 11.10.6. ProtoField
- 11.10.6.1. ProtoField.new(name, abbr, type, [voidstring], [base], [mask], [descr])
- 11.10.6.2. ProtoField.uint8(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.3. ProtoField.uint16(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.4. ProtoField.uint24(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.5. ProtoField.uint32(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.6. ProtoField.uint64(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.7. ProtoField.int8(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.8. ProtoField.int16(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.9. ProtoField.int24(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.10. ProtoField.int32(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.11. ProtoField.int64(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.12. ProtoField.framenum(abbr, [name], [base], [valuestring], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.13. ProtoField.bool(abbr, [name], [display], [string], [mask], [desc])
- 11.10.6.14. ProtoField.absolute_time(abbr, [name], [base], [desc])
- 11.10.6.15. ProtoField.relative_time(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.16. ProtoField.ipv4(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.17. ProtoField.ipv6(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.18. ProtoField.ether(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.19. ProtoField.float(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.20. ProtoField.double(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.21. ProtoField.string(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.22. ProtoField.stringz(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.23. ProtoField.bytes(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.24. ProtoField.ubytes(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.25. ProtoField.guid(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.26. ProtoField.oid(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.27. ProtoField.bool(abbr, [name], [desc])
- 11.10.6.28. protofield:__tostring()
- 11.10.7. Non Method Functions
- 11.11. Adding information to the dissection tree
- 11.11.1. TreeItem
- 11.11.1.1. treeitem:add_packet_field()
- 11.11.1.2. treeitem:add()
- 11.11.1.3. treeitem:add_le()
- 11.11.1.4. treeitem:set_text(text)
- 11.11.1.5. treeitem:append_text(text)
- 11.11.1.6. treeitem:set_expert_flags([group], [severity])
- 11.11.1.7. treeitem:add_expert_info([group], [severity], [text])
- 11.11.1.8. treeitem:set_generated()
- 11.11.1.9. treeitem:set_hidden()
- 11.11.1.10. treeitem:set_len(len)
- 11.11.1. TreeItem
- 11.12. Functions for handling packet data
- 11.12.1. ByteArray
- 11.12.1.1. ByteArray.new([hexbytes])
- 11.12.1.2. bytearray:__concat(first, second)
- 11.12.1.3. bytearray:prepend(prepended)
- 11.12.1.4. bytearray:append(appended)
- 11.12.1.5. bytearray:set_size(size)
- 11.12.1.6. bytearray:set_index(index, value)
- 11.12.1.7. bytearray:get_index(index)
- 11.12.1.8. bytearray:len()
- 11.12.1.9. bytearray:subset(offset, length)
- 11.12.2. Int
- 11.12.3. Tvb
- 11.12.4. TvbRange
- 11.12.4.1. tvb:range([offset], [length])
- 11.12.4.2. tvbrange:uint()
- 11.12.4.3. tvbrange:le_uint()
- 11.12.4.4. tvbrange:uint64()
- 11.12.4.5. tvbrange:le_uint64()
- 11.12.4.6. tvbrange:int()
- 11.12.4.7. tvbrange:le_int()
- 11.12.4.8. tvbrange:int64()
- 11.12.4.9. tvbrange:le_int64()
- 11.12.4.10. tvbrange:float()
- 11.12.4.11. tvbrange:le_float()
- 11.12.4.12. tvbrange:ipv4()
- 11.12.4.13. tvbrange:le_ipv4()
- 11.12.4.14. tvbrange:ether()
- 11.12.4.15. tvbrange:nstime()
- 11.12.4.16. tvbrange:le_nstime()
- 11.12.4.17. tvbrange:string()
- 11.12.4.18. tvbrange:ustring()
- 11.12.4.19. tvbrange:le_ustring()
- 11.12.4.20. tvbrange:stringz()
- 11.12.4.21. tvbrange:ustringz()
- 11.12.4.22. tvbrange:le_ustringz()
- 11.12.4.23. tvbrange:bytes()
- 11.12.4.24. tvbrange:bitfield([position], [length])
- 11.12.4.25. tvbrange:range([offset], [length])
- 11.12.4.26. tvbrange:len()
- 11.12.4.27. tvbrange:offset()
- 11.12.4.28. tvbrange:__tostring()
- 11.12.5. UInt
- 11.12.1. ByteArray
- 11.13. Utility Functions
- 11.13.1. Dir
- 11.13.2. Non Method Functions
- 11.13.2.1. get_version()
- 11.13.2.2. format_date(timestamp)
- 11.13.2.3. format_time(timestamp)
- 11.13.2.4. report_failure(text)
- 11.13.2.5. critical(...)
- 11.13.2.6. warn(...)
- 11.13.2.7. message(...)
- 11.13.2.8. info(...)
- 11.13.2.9. debug(...)
- 11.13.2.10. loadfile(filename)
- 11.13.2.11. dofile(filename)
- 11.13.2.12. persconffile_path([filename])
- 11.13.2.13. datafile_path([filename])
- 11.13.2.14. register_stat_cmd_arg(argument, [action])
- Appendix A. Files and Folders
- Appendix B. Protocols and Protocol Fields
- Appendix C. Wireshark Messages
- Appendix D. Related command line tools
- D.1. Introduction
- D.2. tshark: Terminal-based Wireshark
- D.3. tcpdump: Capturing with tcpdump for viewing with Wireshark
- D.4. dumpcap: Capturing with dumpcap for viewing with Wireshark
- D.5. capinfos: Print information about capture files
- D.6. rawshark: Dump and analyze network traffic.
- D.7. editcap: Edit capture files
- D.8. mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one
- D.9. text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures
- D.10. idl2wrs: Creating dissectors from CORBA IDL files
- Appendix E. This Document's License (GPL)