Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wire shark from the program

From: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 01:34:30 +0100

Try:

wireshark -f 'udp port 346478'

However, 346478 is not a valid port number.  Maximum is 65535 (2^16-1).

Regards,
Tyler

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:20:26 Vinay Chilakamarri wrote:
> Pardon me if this is a very basic question(I am fairly new to WireShark)...
> but I am stuck with the problem of starting a wireshark listening on a
> specific port through command line. Here was my initial command line arg
> list:
>
> wireshark -fudp -i2 -k
>
> I want to be able to listen for data coming on port 346478 but am unable to
> find an argument that would do the job. I went through this link
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureFilters
>
> But I don't exactly know when to issue these arguments and where. Can
> anyone please suggest me some direction on this?
>
> Thank you!
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Vinay Chilakamarri <
>
> vinay.chilakamarri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yeah exactly
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Vinay Chilakamarri wrote:
> > > > I thought that Wireshark must have registered itself as one of the
> > > > environment variables,
> > >
> > > I.e., you thought that it would have added the directory containing the
> > > Wireshark, TShark, etc. executables to the PATH environment variable?
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