User Guide

3.2. Start Wireshark

You can start Wireshark from your shell or window manager.

Tip!

When starting Wireshark it's possible to specify optional settings using the command

line. See Section 9.2, “Start Wireshark from the command line” for details.

Note!

In the following chapters, a lot of screenshots from Wireshark will be shown. As Wire-

shark runs on many different platforms and there are different versions of the underly-

ing GUI toolkit (GTK 1.x / 2.x) used, your screen might look different from the

provided screenshots. But as there are no real differences in functionality, these

screenshots should still be well understandable.

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