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Mastering Wireshark 2

Mastering Wireshark 2

By : Andrew Crouthamel
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Mastering Wireshark 2

Mastering Wireshark 2

By: Andrew Crouthamel

Overview of this book

Wireshark, a combination of a Linux distro (Kali) and an open source security framework (Metasploit), is a popular and powerful tool. Wireshark is mainly used to analyze the bits and bytes that flow through a network. It efficiently deals with the second to the seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a form that can be easily read by people. Mastering Wireshark 2 helps you gain expertise in securing your network. We start with installing and setting up Wireshark2.0, and then explore its interface in order to understand all of its functionalities. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover different ways to create, use, capture, and display filters. By halfway through the book, you will have mastered Wireshark features, analyzed different layers of the network protocol, and searched for anomalies. You’ll learn about plugins and APIs in depth. Finally, the book focuses on pocket analysis for security tasks, command-line utilities, and tools that manage trace files. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configured it for troubleshooting purposes.
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Installing Wireshark 2

Profiles

We'll now take a look at how to create profiles to package these preferences into usable profiles that you can switch between, based on the situation that you are in.

When you're using Wireshark, any of the changes that you make to it, whether it's your preferences that you might be changing, display filters that you might be creating or capture filters, or any of that, they all go under what is known as the default profile. And when you create new profiles, they will work as a copy of the default profile. Thus, it's recommended that you make minimal changes to your default profile. You can maybe make a few overreaching changes to your environment, but don't do anything specific, and instead make a profile for different specific situations that you might need. You can do that in the bottom right-hand corner of the Wireshark interface. As you can...

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