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If you are a Wireshark power user, you know the importance of complex display filters to narrow searches for very particular items. The challenge can be to recall these filters, end edit them in different analysis cases. Also, if you want to be able to replace addresses, the possibility of typos and time being lost becomes evident, if not frustrating.
Luckily Wireshark has a very little known capability called display filter macros. In the entire Wireshark web site, there may be 10 total sentences dedicated to the capability. Ok it might be 12 sentences.
Here is how it works. You have to define the macro first, using variables, that when you execute the macro, the variables are then inserted. Let’s start with a really simple one that you probably would never actually define because, like most of us, you know the filter by heart: the ip.addr == a.b.c.d filter.
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