User Guide

hosts Wireshark uses the files listed in Table A.1, “Configuration
files and folders overview” to translate IPv4 and IPv6 ad-
dresses into names.
This file has the same format as the usual /etc/hosts file in
Unix systems.
An example is:
# Comments must be prepended by the # sign!
192.168.0.1 homeserver
The settings from this file are read in at program start and
never written by Wireshark.
ipxnets Wireshark uses the files listed in Table A.1, “Configuration
files and folders overview” to translate IPX network numbers
into names.
An example is:
C0.A8.2C.00 HR
c0-a8-1c-00 CEO
00:00:BE:EF IT_Server1
110f FileServer3
The settings from this file are read in at program start and
never written by Wireshark.
plugins folder Wireshark searches for plugins in the directories listed in Ta-
ble A.1, “Configuration files and folders overview”. They are
searched in the order listed.
temp folder If you start a new capture and don't specify a filename for it,
Wireshark uses this directory to place that file in, see Sec-
tion 4.6, “Capture files and file modes”.
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