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# Setting up Wireshark and running


## Running your remote

During Wireshark startup, the Wirego bridge plugin will try to establish a connection to your program.
Before anything else, it's probably time to start your remote developed using a Wirego package (see wirego_remote/go/).
If you're remote is not ready yet, you will probably want to start with an example: [../examples/minimal/](../examples/minimal/).

Your remote program will wait for connections from the Wirego bridge.


## Installing the Wirego plugin for Wireshark

Once you have built the Wirego plugin for Wireshark (or downloaded a pre-built version), you should have a Wireshark plugin named __wirego.so__.
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Once the Wirego plugin for Wireshark is installed open Wireshark preferences, select "Protocols" on the left menu and then locate "Wirego".

Enter the endpoint to match the one used on you **Wirego remote plugin**.
Enter the endpoint to match the one used on you **Wirego remote plugin** then **restart Wireshark**

During the next startup, Wirego remote will establish a ZMQ connection to your Wirego remote.

It's probably time to open a pcap file and see your remote plugin in action!

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