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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 Try to find out the major differences between the GTK and QT frameworks. And which one do you think is better?

Q.2 Try out the Translation feature by changing the system default language in Wireshark to any other language of your choice.

Q.3 Create a Flow graph using the newer version and the legacy version, and observe how many differences you can figure out between the graphs.

Q.4 Open any previous capture file you have, and try to figure out how many TCP streams there are in it.

Q.5 Figure out a way to remove the display filter button for the ARP protocol that we created earlier in this chapter.

Q.6 Try changing coloring rules for ARP packets, and check whether you can observe the difference in the intelligent scroll bar area.

Q.7 After installing the newer version of Wireshark on a Windows machine, try to launch USBPcap. Then, copy and paste from your PC to the sub device or vice versa (dump all the activities in the test.pcap file).

Q.8 Open the recently captured test...