You can also double click on the interface that you want to capture packets to and from to start capturing packets on that particular interface. Now to start capturing packets, just select the interface (in my case interface ens33) and click on the Start capturing packets icon as marked in the screenshot below. Here, I listed only the Wired network interfaces. You can choose to show specific types of interfaces in the welcome screen from the marked section of the screenshot below. There are many types of interfaces you can monitor using Wireshark, for example, Wired, Wireless, USB and many external devices. In this guide, we are learn how to install latest Wireshark on Ubuntu 18.04.When you start Wireshark, you will see a list of interfaces that you can capture packets to and from. Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. Some of the features of Wireshark include Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time.Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others.Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility.The most powerful display filters in the industry.

Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor ….Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly.Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform).Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2.Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis.Output can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, or plain text.Note that it is a criminal act to scan or sniff on any network traffic without any clearance to do so. Wireshark is available on the default Ubuntu 18.04 repositories.

However, the available versions may not be up-to-date.

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