Welcome to Instant Wireshark Starter. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information you need to set up Wireshark and network
analysis. You will learn the basics of Wireshark, get started with building your first course, and discover some tips and tricks for using Wireshark.

This book contains the following sections:

So, what is Wireshark? tells you what Wireshark actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

Installation teaches you how to download and install Wireshark with minimum fuss and then set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible on your favorite operating system.

Quick start – your first packet capture shows you how to perform one of the core tasks of Wireshark; network packet analysis. We will cover both the graphical as well as the command-line interface of Wireshark in this section.

Top 5 features you need to know about explains how to perform different tasks with the most important features of Wireshark. By the end of this section you will be able to:

- Start working with packet streams
- Understand name resolution and packet reassembling
- Analyze statistics of captured packets
- Decode captured data
- Export captured data
- Use Wireshark command-line tools

Wireshark activity shows live implementation of Wireshark and implements the topics mentioned previously.

People and places you should get to know provides you with many useful links to the project pages and forums, as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, blogs, and the Twitter feeds of Wireshark super-contributors.