WireShark: Find the TCP Port Numbers being Used for a Connection
Essay - Published: 2015.08.26 | 1 min read (100 words)
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**Problem: **I’m using WireShark to monitor my network traffic and I want to see what port numbers are being used for a particular TCP connection I’ve captured.
Solution:
- Find the desired connection packet in WireShark
- In the details section at the bottom, find “Transmission Control Protocol”
- Next to that, you’ll see the source and destination ports
or
- Find the desired connection packet in the WireShark list view
- Look in the info section
- There should be two numbers of the form “####->#####”. This indicates the source port number and the destination port number
Example:

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