On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 03:43:34PM -0600, David Alanis wrote:
> I forgot the most important part of your question. Once you have the
> Wireshark capture and if you simply apply the view filter 'ftp' and
> displays your entire connection. Then you know your FTP session is not
> encrypted, hence ftp displays communication over port 21 and maybe 20?
>
> I didn't see FTP listed under preferences > protocols.
The FTP dissector is hard-coded to handle two types of FTP traffic: FTP
commands on port 21 and FTPDATA on port 20. You should be able to right
click on a packet and do "Decode as..." FTP also though.