Wireshark Tricks
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Wireshark Tricks

Layout

The packet list layout can be rearranged in various ways. Let’s select Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Layout to choose another arrangement.

Wireshark-Layout

Wireless Toolbar

You can display the toolbar by clicking View > Wireless Toolbar

Wireless-Toolbar

Wireshark Hoping

Wireshark doesn’t channel hop. To quickly scan all channels on 2.4GHz, we can run the following shell script in the background in a terminal.

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for channel in 1 6 11 2 7 10 3 8 4 9 5
do
  iw dev wlan0mon set channel ${channel}
  sleep 1
done