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Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals

You're reading from   Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals Get up and running with Wireshark to analyze your network effectively

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788833226
Length 912 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Charit Mishra Charit Mishra
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Yoram Orzach Yoram Orzach
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Chapter 1. Welcome to the World of Packet Analysis with Wireshark

This chapter provides you an introduction to the basics of the TCP/IP model and familiarizes you with the GUI of Wireshark along with a sample packet capture. You will be introduced to the following topics:

  • What is Wireshark?
  • How does it work?
  • A brief overview of the TCP/IP model
  • An introduction to packet analysis
  • Why use Wireshark?
  • Understanding the GUI of Wireshark
  • The first packet capture

Introduction to Wireshark

Wireshark is one of the most advanced packet capturing software, which makes the life of system/network administrators easy and proves its usefulness among the groups of security evangelists. Wireshark is also called a protocol analyzer, which helps IT professionals in debugging network-level problems. This tool can be of great use to optimize network performance.

Wireshark runs around dissecting network-level packets and showing packet details to concerned users as per their requirement. If you are one of those...

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