How to filter by IP address in Wireshark

Question

I tried dst  192 168 1 101 but only get    Neither  dst  nor  192 168 1 101  are field or protocol names   The following display filter isn t a valid display filter  dst  192 168 1 101

User · Answer

Actually for some reason wireshark uses two different kind of filter syntax one on display filter and other on capture filter. Display filter is only useful to find certain traffic just for display purpose only. its like you are interested in all trafic but for now you just want to see specific.

but if you are interested only in certian traffic and does not care about other at all then you use the capture filter.

The Syntax for display filter is (as mentioned earlier)

ip.addr = x.x.x.x or ip.src = x.x.x.x or ip.dst = x.x.x.x

but above syntax won't work in capture filters, following are the filters

host x.x.x.x

see more example on wireshark wiki page

User · Answer

in our use we have to capture with host x x x x  or  vlan and host x x x x   anything less will not capture  I am not sure why but that is the way it works

User · Answer

You can also limit the filter to only part of the ip address    E G  To filter 123       you can use ip addr    123 0 0 0 8  Similar effects can be achieved with  16 and  24   See WireShark man pages  filters  and look for Classless InterDomain Routing  CIDR  notation          the number after the slash represents the number of bits used to represent the network

User · Answer

Other answers already cover how to filter by an address  but if you would like to exclude an address use  ip addr  lt  192 168 0 11

User · Answer

If you only care about that particular machine s traffic  use a capture filter instead  which you can set under Capture - gt  Options    host 192 168 1 101   Wireshark will only capture packet sent to or received by 192 168 1 101  This has the benefit of requiring less processing  which lowers the chances of important packets being dropped  missed

User · Answer

Try  ip dst    172 16 3 255

User · Answer

Filtering IP Address in Wireshark    1 single IP filtering   ip addr  X X X X  ip src  X X X X  ip dst  X X X X   2 Multiple IP filtering based on logical conditions   OR condition      ip src  192 168 2 25    ip dst  192 168 2 25   AND condition     ip src  192 168 2 25   amp  amp   ip dst  74 125 236 16

User · Answer

Match destination  ip dst    x x x x  Match source  ip src    x x x x  Match either  ip addr    x x x x

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