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Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals

By : James H Baxter, Yoram Orzach, Charit Mishra
Book Image

Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals

By: James H Baxter, Yoram Orzach, Charit Mishra

Overview of this book

This Learning Path starts off installing Wireshark, before gradually taking you through your first packet capture, identifying and filtering out just the packets of interest, and saving them to a new file for later analysis. You will then discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. By halfway through the book, you'll be mastering Wireshark features, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, and looking for any anomalies.We then start Ethernet and LAN switching, through IP, and then move on to TCP/UDP with a focus on TCP performance problems. It also focuses on WLAN security. Then, we go through application behavior issues including HTTP, mail, DNS, and other common protocols. This book finishes with a look at network forensics and how to locate security problems that might harm the network.This course provides you with highly practical content explaining Metasploit from the following books: 1) Wireshark Essentials 2) Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook 3) Mastering Wireshark
Table of Contents (5 chapters)

Appendix A. Links, Tools, and Reading

In this appendix I would like to refer to some useful links from which you can get further information about Wireshark: learning sources, additional software, and so on.

Useful Wireshark links

The main Wireshark link is of course http://www.wireshark.org. Here you can find:

Also some other useful links are:

  • The Wireshark graphical user interface was created using...