Over the years, Wireshark has evolved. Now, more than ever, it's very easy to create a display filter on the fly while doing analysis by simply right-clicking and choosing to apply or prepare a filter.

In this section, let's take a look at the many ways in which we can apply a filter, without going through the complicated exercise of launching the expression builder. In addition, we'll see some handy filters that you can use to get right down to the issue. We'll start with an overview of the many shortcuts to use when filtering traffic.