Wireshark Profiles

Use this drop-in profile to instantly configure Wireshark for 802.11 packet analysis, or use it as a starting point for your own custom configuration!

MetaGeekConfiguration

Features

MetaGeek Frame Coloring Watch 802.11 stations exchange frames! Management frames are colored purple, control frames are orange, and data frames are blue, making frame exchanges super mega easy to track.

Bad Frame Coloring

Malformed frames and frames that fail checksums are colored red.

EAP and EAPOL Frame Coloring

See 4-way handshakes and RADIUS exchanges! Cool!

Frame Sub-Type Column

See frame sub-types in a column!

FrameTypes

Marked Retries

The frame type column marks retries without changing the color. Nice!

Retries

Hide Frame Types

"Hide Bad", "Hide Data", "Hide Management", and "Hide Control" shortcut buttons mean that there are 4 less regular expressions for you to remember and type. You're welcome!

AP/Client Conversation Shortcut

Apply the AP/Client Conversation filter, and copy/paste in your AP and client MAC addresses to quickly filter down to a specific conversation.

Replace aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa with AP radio MAC address Replace cc:cc:cc:cc:cc:cc with client MAC address

Installation Instructions

  1. Download the MG_Wi-Fi folder

  2. Add the folder to the "profiles" folder.

Note: On macOS, you can do this by opening Wireshark, enter CMD+Shift+A, then click directory path on bottom right of dialog box. Copy unzipped folder into profiles folder in that directory

  1. Activate the profile in the lower right corner of Wireshark.

Select Profile