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[[PreForeword]]
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=== Foreword
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Wireshark is one of those programs that many network managers would love to be
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able to use, but they are often prevented from getting what they would like from
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Wireshark because of the lack of documentation.
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This document is part of an effort by the Wireshark team to improve the
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usability of Wireshark.
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We hope that you find it useful and look forward to your comments.
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[[PreAudience]]
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=== Who should read this document?
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The intended audience of this book is anyone using Wireshark.
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This book will explain all the basics and also some of the advanced features
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that Wireshark provides. As Wireshark has become a very complex program since
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the early days, not every feature of Wireshark may be explained in this book.
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This book is not intended to explain network sniffing in general and it
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will not provide details about specific network protocols. A lot of
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useful information regarding these topics can be found at the Wireshark
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Wiki at link:{wireshark-wiki-url}[].
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By reading this book, you will learn how to install Wireshark, how to use the
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basic elements of the graphical user interface (such as the menu) and what's
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behind some of the advanced features that are not always obvious at first sight.
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It will hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appear
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for new (and sometimes even advanced) users of Wireshark.
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[[PreAck]]
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=== Acknowledgements
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The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their assistance.
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In particular, the authors would like to thank:
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* Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project and funding to do this
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documentation.
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* Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing
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this document.
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* Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.
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The authors would also like to thank the following people for their helpful
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feedback on this document:
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* Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
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* Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
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* Graeme Hewson, for a lot of grammatical corrections.
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The authors would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the
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Wireshark project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:
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* Scott Renfro from whose `mergecap` man page <<AppToolsmergecap>> is derived.
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* Ashok Narayanan from whose `text2pcap` man page <<AppToolstext2pcap>> is derived.
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[[PreAbout]]
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=== About this document
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This book was originally developed by mailto:{wsug-author-email2}[Richard
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Sharpe] with funds provided from the Wireshark Fund. It was updated by
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mailto:{wsug-author-email3}[Ed Warnicke] and more recently redesigned and
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updated by mailto:{wsug-author-email}[Ulf Lamping].
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It was originally written in DocBook/XML and converted to AsciiDoc by
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Gerald Combs.
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You will find some specially marked parts in this book:
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[WARNING]
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.This is a warning
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You should pay attention to a warning, otherwise data loss might occur.
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[NOTE]
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.This is a note
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A note will point you to common mistakes and things that might not be obvious.
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[TIP]
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.This is a tip
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Tips are helpful for your everyday work using Wireshark.
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====
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[[PreDownload]]
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=== Where to get the latest copy of this document?
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The latest copy of this documentation can always be found at
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{wireshark-users-guide-url}.
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[[PreFeedback]]
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=== Providing feedback about this document
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Should you have any feedback about this document, please send it to the
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authors through mailto:{wireshark-dev-list-email}[].
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