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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide

By : Charit Mishra
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Wireshark 2 Quick Start Guide

By: Charit Mishra

Overview of this book

<p>Wireshark is an open source protocol analyser, commonly used among the network and security professionals. Currently being developed and maintained by volunteer contributions of networking experts from all over the globe. Wireshark is mainly used to analyze network traffic, analyse network issues, analyse protocol behaviour, etc. - it lets you see what's going on in your network at a granular level. This book takes you from the basics of the Wireshark environment to detecting and resolving network anomalies.</p> <p>This book will start from the basics of setting up your Wireshark environment and will walk you through the fundamentals of networking and packet analysis. As you make your way through the chapters, you will discover different ways to analyse network traffic through creation and usage of filters and statistical features. You will look at network security packet analysis, command-line utilities, and other advanced tools that will come in handy when working with day-to-day network operations.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you have enough skill with Wireshark 2 to overcome real-world network challenges.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
8
Mastering the Advanced Features of Wireshark
Index

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Mastering Wireshark 2 Andrew Crouthamel

ISBN: 978-1-78862-652-1

  • Understand what network and protocol analysis is and how it can help you
  • Use Wireshark to capture packets in your network
  • Filter captured traffic to only show what you need
  • Explore useful statistic displays to make it easier to diagnose issues
  • Customize Wireshark to your own specifications
  • Analyze common network and network application protocols

Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yogesh Ramdoss, Yoram Orzach

ISBN: 978-1-78646-167-4

  • Configure Wireshark 2 for effective network analysis and troubleshooting
  • Set up various display and capture filters
  • Understand networking layers, including IPv4 and IPv6 analysis
  • Explore performance issues in TCP/IP
  • Get to know about Wi-Fi testing and how to resolve problems related to wireless LANs
  • Get information about network phenomena, events, and errors
  • Locate faults in detecting security failures and breaches in networks