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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 List at least five differences between TCP and UDP protocols.

Q.2 Capture a three-way handshake and tear down packets using your own FTP server.

Q.3 Explain the purpose of window scaling and checksum offloading and state their corresponding significance in terms of TCP communications.

Q.4 In what way can TCP-based communication can recover from a packet loss or unexpected termination? Imitate any scenarios that can generate such traffic.

Q.5 Create a display filter to show only TCP FIN and ACK packets sent to your machine from your default gateway in the list pane.

Q.6 What is the difference between the absolute and relative numbering system used by Wireshark in order to keep track of packets?

Q.7 What is the purpose of the options field at the end of the TCP header and what kind of arguments does it contain?

Q.8 There is one more way through which you can create filters to view a packet with a specific flags set. Without providing the HEX equivalent, figure out what it is...