Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] running wireshark just before and after downloading a payload

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

That one is easy. Just set the snaplength to the size you need.
That is the "Limit each packet to xxx bytes" entry on the Capture 
options dialog.

Thanx
Jaap

Albretch Mueller wrote:
>  Hi,
> ~
>  I was wondering how could you run wireshark just before and after
> downloading a payload, without snooping in anyone else's actual
> payloads
> ~
>  The only needed metrics would be:
> ~
>  1) timing down to the milliseconds (or nanoseconds?)
> ~
>  2) the IP address of the initiating client's request
> ~
>  3) the IP address of the server's response
> ~
>  4) the used protocol
> ~
>  Then you, say, go "wget <some package out there>" and wireshark would
> stop doing it and just do the data payload
> ~
>  and after finishing the download it would do the initial (1,2,3,4)
> for some time
> ~
>  Thanks
>  lbrtchx
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