Remember that Wireshark has display filters and capture filters. Also here in the comments I suggest you share the running filters that you often use, as well as interesting finds – I will add them to this list. For novice users, this can be a bit of a Wireshark filter reference, a starting point for exploring. I collected the most interesting and most frequently used Wireshark filters for me. And there is a lot of documentation on these filters, which is not so easy to understand. In Wireshark just a huge number of various filters.

wireshark filter to assess the quality of a network connection.

Fields can also be compared against values. Protocols and fields can be checked for existence in the filter box.

http.www_authenticate - WWW-Authenticate.

http.proxy_connect_port - Proxy connect port.

http.proxy_connect_host - Proxu connect hostname.

http.proxy_authorization - Proxy authorization.

http.proxy_authenticate- Proxy authenticate.icmpv6.recursive_dns_serv - Recursive DNS Server.icmpv6.ra.router_lifetime - Router lifetime.icmpv6.ra.retrans_timer - Retrans timer.icmpv6.ra.reachable_time - Reachable time.icmpv6.ra.cur_hop_limit - Cur hop limit.ICMPv6 - Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 tcp.time_relative - Time since first frame in the TCP stream.tcp.time_delta - Time sence previous frame in the TCP stream.

- Conflicting data in segment overlap.tcp.reassembled_in - Reassembled PDU in frame.- Time until the last segment of this PDU.tcp.continuation_to - This is a contiuation to the PDU in frame.ipv6.reassembled_in - Reassembled in Frame.ipv6.addr - Source or Destination Address.ip.reassembled_in - Reassembled IPv4 in frame.ip.fragment.toolongfragment - Fragment too long.ip. - Confliting data in fragment overlap.ip.fragment.multipletails - Multiple tail fragment found.ip.fragment.error -Defragmentation error.ip.dsfield.dscp - Diferrentiated Services Codepoint.ip.dsfield - Diffrentiated Services Field.ip.addr - Source or Destination Address.These filters and its powerful filter engine helps remove the noise from a packet trace and only see the packets of interest.ĭisplay filters allow us to compare fields within a protocol against a specific value, compare fields against fields and check the existence os specific fields or protocols.īellow you can find a small list of the most common protocols and fields when filtering traffic with Wireshark. There over 242000 fields in 3000 protocols that let you drill down to the exact traffic you want to see. Wireshark’s most powerful feature is it vast array of filters.

Wireshark filter by port number