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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

VoIP playback


In this section, we'll reconstruct and play back VoIP calls and listen to quality issues.

What we'll do is use the same magicJack call that was used in the previous section.

One of the really great features of Wireshark, in addition to all of its many filters and statistics and graphs that it can create, is that it has the ability to play back voice traffic. Some people might find this kind of creepy if you're an end user, that you can listen to someone's phone call, but it is data. Just like we can read all of these commands back and forth, we can read the username and password if it's unencrypted; if the SIP traffic is also unencrypted then we can listen to the phone call, too, just because it's standard data; it just happens to be voice traffic. We can do that in Wireshark very easily.

In order to do that, we opened up our call. We simply go to Telephony | VoIP Calls, and select the call:

After selecting the call, click on Play Streams. And when you click on that, you'll see...