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Wireshark 2 0 What happened with the Statistics Summary Screen
As I get familiar with Wireshark 2.0, I’m finding that there are subtle differences from the previous version. I found the best way to get used to a new version of an application is to install it and go cold turkey. I mean cold turkey in the sense that I don’t want to have the previous version on my hard drive as a security blanket or fallback.
Then I simply go through the motions and replicate all the daily tasks that I use Wireshark for and figure out if the new version has any drastic differences.
In this video I cover what happened with the Statistics-Summary Screen and how it has been combined with the file comments function.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZL8kNj0E-A
Then I simply go through the motions and replicate all the daily tasks that I use Wireshark for and figure out if the new version has any drastic differences.
In this video I cover what happened with the Statistics-Summary Screen and how it has been combined with the file comments function.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZL8kNj0E-A
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