Wireshark 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis

Description

By Chappell Laura, Combs Gerald

Paperback – English

Wireshark is the world’s most popular network analyzer tool with over 1 million downloads per month. As the Founder of Wireshark University, Laura Chappell is undoubtedly one of the best Wireshark instructors around.

In this updated book, Laura offers step-by-step instructions on the key functions and features of Wireshark, including:

– Filter on addresses, protocols, fields or traffic characteristics
– Create custom columns for more efficient analysis
– Find the source of delays with filters and coloring rules
– Perform unattended captures with auto-stop conditions
– Filter on keywords using wildcards and regular expressions
– Graph and compare user, subnet and application traffic
– Reassemble and extract a file from captured traffic
– Identify DNS and HTTP errors fast
– Export important packet details to .csv format
– …and more

This book includes 46 step-by-step Labs to quickly bring you up to speed with Wireshark version 2 regardless of whether you are a newbie or already working with Wireshark today