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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

Summary


DNS is a protocol used to resolve website names to an IP address. Through DNS, your machine is able communicate on an IP-based network.

FTP has been used to transfer files from one machine to another since the internet came into existence and is still being used in today's modern networks.

Web browsers present and transfer web-based content back and forth using HTTP. It is also commonly referred to as the request/response model, where a host requests a certain resource and the server responds with a status code and the resource if available.

SMTP is very commonly used to send emails. The SMTP command and its corresponding arguments are passed over the wire in plaintext.

VoIP traffic is made up of two things: RTP for data transfer and SIP for session creation. The signaling protocol creates and manages a session where RTP is used to carry the voice itself.