We'll now take a look at how to create profiles to package these preferences into usable profiles that you can switch between, based on the situation that you are in.

When you're using Wireshark, any of the changes that you make to it, whether it's your preferences that you might be changing, display filters that you might be creating or capture filters, or any of that, they all go under what is known as the default profile. And when you create new profiles, they will work as a copy of the default profile. Thus, it's recommended that you make minimal changes to your default profile. You can maybe make a few overreaching changes to your environment, but don't do anything specific, and instead make a profile for different specific situations that you might need. You can do that in the bottom right-hand corner of the Wireshark interface. As you can...