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Mastering Wireshark 2

By : Andrew Crouthamel
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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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributor
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing Wireshark 2
Index

Trace file statistics


In this section, we'll take a look at how to display useful statistics in Wireshark and some issues you could troubleshoot utilizing that statistical information.

Resolved addresses

In order to access the statistics in Wireshark, click on Statistics and go to Resolved Addresses:

The Resolved Addresses window will give you a list at the top of all of the IP addresses and DNS names that were resolved in your packet capture. This way, you can get an idea of all the different resources that were accessed in your packet capture:

Protocol hierarchy

Next we'll look at protocol hierarchy. You need to click on Statistics and go to Protocol Hierarchy:

It will give you a breakdown based on the percentages of the packets of the most popular protocols that it saw:

As you can see at the beginning, everything that came in was a Frame. Everything that came in that Frame was an Ethernet frame. And then within that, we have a breakdown of what's within Ethernet. So we have some Internet Protocol...