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Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

By : Yoram Orzach
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Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

By: Yoram Orzach

Overview of this book

Is your network slow? Are your users complaining? Disconnections? IP Telephony problems? Video freezes? Network analysis is the process of isolating these problems and fixing them, and Wireshark has long been the most popular network analyzer for achieving this goal. Based on hundreds of solved cases, Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook provides you with practical recipes for effective Wireshark network analysis to analyze and troubleshoot your network. "Network analysis using Wireshark Cookbook" highlights the operations of Wireshark as a network analyzer tool. This book provides you with a set of practical recipes to help you solve any problems in your network using a step-by-step approach. "Network analysis using Wireshark Cookbook" starts by discussing the capabilities of Wireshark, such as the statistical tools and the expert system, capture and display filters, and how to use them. The book then guides you through the details of the main networking protocols, that is, Ethernet, LAN switching, and TCP/IP, and then discusses the details of application protocols and their behavior over the network. Among the application protocols that are discussed in the book are standard Internet protocols like HTTP, mail protocols, FTP, and DNS, along with the behavior of databases, terminal server clients, Citrix, and other applications that are common in the IT environment. In a bottom-up troubleshooting approach, the book goes up through the layers of the OSI reference model explaining how to resolve networking problems. The book starts from Ethernet and LAN switching, through IP, and then 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. The book finishes with a look at network forensics and how to search and find security problems that might harm the network.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring TCP and UDP preferences for troubleshooting


In most cases you can use the default Wireshark parameters for TCP and UDP network analysis, but there are also some changes that can be configured. The changes will be configured in the Preferences window.

Getting ready

For TCP or UDP configuration:

  1. Start Wireshark, and from the Edit menu, choose Statistics.

  2. Under Protocols, choose TCP or UDP.

How to do it...

In this section we will see how to configure TCP and UDP preferences.

UDP parameters

Let's see some parameters that can influence the capture of UDP:

You can configure the following parameters in UDP:

  • Show UDP summary in protocol tree: Mark this button if you want the UDP summary line to be shown in the protocol tree (set by default)

  • Try heuristic sub-dissectors first: Try to decode a packet using the heuristic method before using a sub-dissector registered to the specific port

  • Validate the UDP checksum if possible: Validates the UDP checksum

  • Collect process flow information: Collects...