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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

Practice questions:


Q.1 What is the significance of the DNS protocol while you surf the Internet?

Q.2 How would you define zone transfers and recursive DNS queries?

Q.3 What is the difference between recursion desired and recursion available in DNS queries?

Q.4 How many DNS record types exist? Explain the purpose of the AAAA record type and what does non-authoritative answer mean?

Q.5 Differentiate between active and passive modes of FTP. Explain which mode is better.

Q.6 What solution can you come up if you are being asked to make your FTP session encrypted? Explain the difference it would make.

Q.7 Using a virtual infrastructure or a physical one, install the FTP server on any of the machines and then try to communicate with it while capturing live packets in Wireshark.

Q.8 Find out how you can limit the maximum number of login attempts. How can such limitation affect the overall security of your FTP server?

Q.9 Why do we refer to HTTP communication as a request/response approach and what is the...