Chapter 4. Using Basic Statistics Tools
In this chapter you will learn:
- Using the Summary tool from the Statistics menu
- Using the Protocol Hierarchy tool from the Statistics menu
- Using the Conversations tool from the Statistics menu
- Using the Endpoints tool from the Statistics menu
- Using the HTTP tool from the Statistics menu
- Configuring Flow Graph for viewing TCP flows
- Creating IP-based statistics
Introduction
One of Wireshark's strengths is the statistical tools. While using Wireshark, we have various types of tools starting from simple tools for listing end nodes and conversations to the more sophisticated tools such as Flow and IO graphs.
In the next two chapters we will learn how to use these tools. In this chapter we will look at the simple tools that provide us with basic network statistics; that is, who talks to whom over the network, which are the "chatty" devices, what packet sizes run over the network, while in the next chapter we'll get into tools such as...
