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Capture Options on wireshark

Based on what i read from a forum : http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/1709/automatically-start-capturing-packets-when-bandwidth-is-high

Ninjadude101 wants to capture log events that contains DoS attack from WireShark.

hansangb told him to open the capture options (CTRL-K)

I don't understand and how to go to the capture options on wireshark??

capture

asked 12 Apr '12, 02:48

misteryuku
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One Answer:

You need to start reading the very fine manual, as seen here. In particular, you should look at the Capture menu info here.

answered 12 Apr '12, 02:54

grahamb ♦
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I went to the caputure options and created file name, check use multiple files, determine the rotation of files, check ring buffer with x files, how many files to create...? The files are generated and when i opened up the files, i saw many unreadable characters on the windows 7 notepad file. Why is this so? I want to get the events in the windows 7 notepad file as readable logs.

(13 Apr '12, 00:55) misteryuku

See the answers to your question @ http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/10105/capturing-packets-to-a-file-using-wiresharks-capture-options

(13 Apr '12, 02:17) grahamb ♦