Wireshark Interface Customization and Targeted Capture

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Wireshark Interface Customization and Targeted Capture

In this lab, you’ll practice customizing your Wireshark settings and performing a packet capture to analyze network traffic. This will teach you how to capture and filter data for information of interest. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to perform Wireshark captures and filter it based on the data you are looking for.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Oct 30, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Configure the Wireshark Interface for Efficient Analysis

In this objective you will learn how to customize your Wireshark profile to filter for data of interest and make it easier to identify information of interest.
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Execute a Targeted Packet Capture in a Simulated Environment

In this objective you will learn how to perform custom packet captures of simulated traffic.
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Apply Advanced Filtering Techniques for Post-Capture Analysis

In this objective you will learn how to filter a packet capture to isolate information of interest.
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Final Objective

In this final objective you will get familiar with Wireshark’s export feature as well as how to export/share custom profiles. For this final objective find out where Wireshark stores custom profiles on your local machine so you can reuse any profiles you make. Also, try to export the file that was shared using ftp from the packet capture that you created.

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