In plain English this filter reads, “Pass all traffic containing an IP Address equal to 10.43.54.65.” This will match on both source and destination. Related: Wireshark Filter by IP ip.addr = 10.43.54.65 You may want to use ctrl+f to search this page because the list isn’t alphabetical.

I suggest anyone interested in learning more about a filter to first play with the example given here in Wireshark and then hit up the official Wireshark Display Filter Wiki page. I also chose to keep most examples brief since fully explaining each filter could fill a book. Now some of these searches do relate to each other, so there will be some repetition/overlap, but I decided to answer each query as it was searched to try and help as many people directly as possible.

This gives us a list of the top 47 Filters that people are searching for! I dug up the top 500 Google search results relating to Wireshark Display Filters and compiled a list of all the unique Filter queries to answer. Unless you’re searching for an obscure Wireshark Filter there is a good chance you’re going to find what you’re looking for in this post.

Wireshark display filter examples