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Special thanks to all of you who joined us for the free Wireshark Jumpstart
101 on August 31st - we had 848 registrants and it was a great session
working with the newly released Wireshark 1.4.0!   --Laura
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Wireshark Network Analysis
The Official Wireshark Certified Network
Analyst Study Guide
ISBN13: 978-1-893939-99-8
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Wireshark Certified Network Analyst
Official Exam Prep Guide (includes CD)
ISBN13: 978-1-893939-98-1
Released: August 2010
Posted: 2010-00-02 09:19:54 UTC-07:00

Resources:
Wireshark version 1.4.0 download - www.wireshark.org/download.html
Wireshark Certified Network Analyst - www.wiresharktraining.com/certification
Wireshark Network Analysis Study Guide - www.wiresharkbook.com
Wireshark Certification Exam Prep Guide - www.wiresharkbook.com/epg

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This week we had over 800 people register for the free
Wireshark 101 Jumpstart
online course. You can
download the handouts and review the topics covered.

During the webinar I focused on some of the cool new features of Wireshark
version 1.4.0. One of my favorite new features - Apply As Column - has even
gotten better than it was in the release candidate versions!

At Sharfest 2010, I was showing the new Apply As feature to the audience. Gerald
Combs, creator of Wireshark, was in that audience.

Simply right click on a field in a packet and choose Apply As to add that field as a
column in the Packet List pane. My favorite fields to add are:

  • TCP Window Size field
  • TCP Sequence Number field
  • TCP Acknowledgment Number field
  • IP Time to Live field
  • 802.11 Channel/Frequency field (from a RadioTap or PPI header)


During that presentation I mentioned how fabulous it would be if I could
temporarily hide one of the new columns then quickly enable it again later.

Voila! It's in Wireshark v1.4.0!
Hiding Columns in the
New Wireshark 1.4.0!
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Try it Yourself

Step 1
Download and extract all the book
supplements (available online at
www.wiresharkbook.com/downloads.html).

Step 2
In Wireshark version 1.4.0, open the trace file
called
http-download-bad.pcap. This trace file
contains the traffic of someone connecting to a
web server and downloading a file. The
performance stinks.

Step 3
Expand the TCP header in packet #1 and
right-click on the Window Size field (near the
end of the TCP header). Select
Apply As
Column
. Your new Window Size column
appears in the Packet List pane.

Step 4
Right click on the new Window Size column
and select
Rename Column Title... - change
the name to
WinSize.

Step 5
Now click the new WinSize column twice to see
the Window Size field values lowest to highest -
do  you see the "Window Zero" condition in the
trace file? What is the IP address of the host
that states it has no receive buffer space
(indicated by a Window Size of 0)?
Yup - that
would be the problem with the file download
process!
Step 6
Let's say you don't always want to see that column though. Simply right click on the WinSize
column heading and select
Hide Column. When you want to see it again, just right click on
any column heading and select
Displayed Columns. Sweet!

Thanks Gerald and the Wireshark development team! This is a great addition!

Enjoy!
Laura