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Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

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

By: Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yoram Orzach, Yogesh Ramdoss

Overview of this book

This book contains practical recipes on troubleshooting a data communications network. This second version of the book focuses on Wireshark 2, which has already gained a lot of traction due to the enhanced features that it offers to users. The book expands on some of the subjects explored in the first version, including TCP performance, network security, Wireless LAN, and how to use Wireshark for cloud and virtual system monitoring. You will learn how to analyze end-to-end IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity failures for Unicast and Multicast traffic using Wireshark. It also includes Wireshark capture files so that you can practice what you’ve learned in the book. You will understand the normal operation of E-mail protocols and learn how to use Wireshark for basic analysis and troubleshooting. Using Wireshark, you will be able to resolve and troubleshoot common applications that are used in an enterprise network, like NetBIOS and SMB protocols. Finally, you will also be able to measure network parameters, check for network problems caused by them, and solve them effectively. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to analyze traffic, find patterns of various offending traffic, and secure your network from them.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Analyzing VLANs and VLAN tagging issues

VLAN, or Virtual LAN, is a mechanism that divides a LAN into separate LANs without any direct communication between them even though they co-exist in the same physical infrastructure, and this is where the name virtual comes from. In this section, we will have a look at recipes to monitor VLAN traffic.

The purpose of this recipe is to give the reader a general description of how to use Wireshark for VLAN issues. An easier way to solve related problems is to use the vendor's CLI (Cisco IOS, Juniper JUNOS, and so on) for this purpose.

Getting ready

We will discuss two issues in this recipe:

  • How to monitor traffic inside a VLAN?
  • How to view tagged frames going through a VLAN-tagged...