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Mastering Wireshark 2

By : Andrew Crouthamel
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Mastering Wireshark 2

By: Andrew Crouthamel

Overview of this book

Wireshark, a combination of a Linux distro (Kali) and an open source security framework (Metasploit), is a popular and powerful tool. Wireshark is mainly used to analyze the bits and bytes that flow through a network. It efficiently deals with the second to the seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a form that can be easily read by people. Mastering Wireshark 2 helps you gain expertise in securing your network. We start with installing and setting up Wireshark2.0, and then explore its interface in order to understand all of its functionalities. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover different ways to create, use, capture, and display filters. By halfway through the book, you will have mastered Wireshark features, analyzed different layers of the network protocol, and searched for anomalies. You’ll learn about plugins and APIs in depth. Finally, the book focuses on pocket analysis for security tasks, command-line utilities, and tools that manage trace files. By the end of the book, you'll have learned how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configured it for troubleshooting purposes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributor
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing Wireshark 2
Index

Diagnosing scenario traffic


In this section, we'll take a look at diving into the captured packets and taking a look at how that FTP server is causing some sort of problem with our connectivity. In our last section, we saw some of the basic settings to make sure that the service was running for the FTP server. We took a capture from the client and saw that there was a TCP SYN with some retransmits, so port 21 was not answering. Then, when that service was up and running, we took a look at the server side again and saw that there was still a TCP SYN with some retransmits. There's still something on the server that's not working correctly, and we know it's on the server side (at least, seemingly) because there's a TCP SYN that is arriving at the server. If it's arriving at the server, it's getting through the firewalls at both ends of the connection; it's getting through the routing on the internet, so we know we're getting partway there, but there's something on the server that's not quite...