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Mastering Wireshark

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Mastering Wireshark

Overview of this book

Wireshark is a popular and powerful tool used to analyze the amount of bits and bytes that are flowing through a network. Wireshark deals with the second to seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a human readable form. Mastering Wireshark will help you raise your knowledge to an expert level. At the start of the book, you will be taught how to install Wireshark, and will be introduced to its interface so you understand all its functionalities. Moving forward, you will discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. Halfway through the book, you’ll be mastering the features of Wireshark, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, looking for any anomalies. As you reach to the end of the book, you will be taught how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configure it for troubleshooting purposes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Wireshark
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with IO, Flow, and TCP stream graphs


Among various other reporting tools, Wireshark offers graphing capabilities too, which can present captured packets in an interesting format that makes the analysis process much more effective and easy to adapt. The graphing feature is much more effective in comparison to scrolling thousands of packets to figure out the cause of any network-related problem. If you have an overwhelming number of packets to be analyzed, then graphs can be seriously productive. There are multiple types of graphs available that we will discuss, starting with the IO graph.