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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

Summary


The newer version of Wireshark has adopted a new framework that gives us a new and totally amazing GUI. The older version was built upon the GTK framework, and since now we have the QT framework, from the perspective of a normal user, the differences are mostly concerned with its look and feel.

Scrolling is definitely one of the tools that we all have seen in all major applications, but hats off to the developers who came up with such a creative idea of showing the coloring pattern of your trace file inside the scroll bar while you are trying to look for something specific. It does give an extra advantage.

The Translation feature makes Wireshark more international and close to every user in terms of personalization. As many Wireshark users might not comfortable with the English language, now they have the facility to change the language to their native language, which would make the analytical process for a professional more effective.

Graphs are one of the features using which differences...