You're reading from Learn Wireshark A definitive guide to expertly analyzing protocols and troubleshooting networks using Wireshark

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803231679

Length 606 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

TCP

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Lisa Bock

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Traffic Capture Overview

2. Chapter 1: Appreciating Traffic Analysis FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using Wireshark

4. Chapter 3: Installing Wireshark

5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Wireshark Interface

6. Part 2 Getting Started with Wireshark

7. Chapter 5: Tapping into the Data Stream

8. Chapter 6: Personalizing the Interface

9. Chapter 7: Using Display and Capture Filters

10. Chapter 8: Outlining the OSI Model

11. Part 3 The Internet Suite TCP/IP

12. Chapter 9: Decoding TCP and UDP

13. Chapter 10: Managing TCP Connections

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing IPv4 and IPv6

15. Chapter 12: Discovering ICMP

16. Part 4 Deep Packet Analysis of Common Protocols

17. Chapter 13: Diving into DNS

18. Chapter 14: Examining DHCP

19. Chapter 15: Decoding HTTP

20. Chapter 16: Understanding ARP

21. Part 5 Working with Packet Captures

22. Chapter 17: Determining Network Latency Issues

23. Chapter 18: Subsetting, Saving, and Exporting Captures

24. Chapter 19: Discovering I/O and Stream Graphs

25. Chapter 20: Using CloudShark for Packet Analysis

26. Assessments

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discovering support for different OSes

Wireshark is an open source packet analysis tool developed as a cross-platform application. Wireshark uses the Qt Graphical User Interface (GUI) library, which can run on a variety of hardware and software platforms with little or no modification to the underlying code. For most OSes, it can be installed with ease using a standard installation.

Wireshark is capable of working with most modern default system capabilities. For example, a system with a 64-bit AMD64/x86-64 processor along with ample memory and disk space will perform well with minimal problems. However, gathering captures that are larger than a few hundred megabytes (MB) may consume too much memory and cause the system to crash.

In this section, we'll outline how Wireshark can be used on either Microsoft Windows, Linux, or macOS. Let's start with how developers provide support for the Windows OS family.