Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] New to Wireshark Application
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:38:54 -0700
On May 29, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do i need to first learn tcpdump in detail and the intricacies

No.

If all you're using tcpdump for is to capture packets, the only stuff you'll need to learn is possibly the capture filter syntax...

> and then wireshark protocol analyzer.

...which will come in handy for Wireshark, as it (and TShark) use the same syntax (because they use the same library to capture traffic).  For information on that, see

	http://procana.asuscomm.com