Chapter 1, Installing Wireshark 2, teaches you how to install Wireshark on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Chapter 2, Getting Started with Wireshark, tells you about what's new in Wireshark 2. It will also teach you how to capture traffic and how to save, export, annotate, and print packages.
Chapter 3, Filtering Traffic, teaches you about BPF syntax and how to create one. It further explains how to use BPF to apply it as a capture filter and reduce the packets, how to create and use display filters, and how to follow streams—both TCP and UDP.
Chapter 4, Customizing Wireshark, explains how to apply preferences in Wireshark and customize them. You will learn how to create profiles for different analysis requirements.
Chapter 5, Statistics, provides an overview of TCP/IP and time values and summaries. You will also take a look at the expert system usage feature of Wireshark.
Chapter 6, Introductory Analysis, explains the basics of DNS and some DNS query examples. You will also learn about ARP resolution and how to resolve an IP address to a physical MAC address on an Ethernet bus. You will also acquire knowledge about IPv4 and IPv6 headers, the flags within them, and the fragmentation.
Chapter 7, Network Protocol Analysis, teaches you about UDP analysis: the connectionless protocol, TCP analysis: the connection-oriented protocol, and finally, graphing I/O rates and TCP trends: visualization of the data analyzed.
Chapter 8, Application Protocol Analysis I, talks about HTTP, both in an unencrypted fashion and an encrypted fashion, and how to decrypt that. You will also look into FTP in all of its many flavors, including active mode, passive mode, and the encrypted flavors of FTPS and SFTP.
Chapter 9, Application Protocol Analysis II, teaches you email analysis using POP and SMTP. We will also look at VoIP analysis using SIP and RTP.
Chapter 10, Command-Line Tools, teaches you how to run Wireshark from the command line, tshark, tcpdump, and running dumpcap.
Chapter 11, A Troubleshooting Scenario, covers troubleshooting a specific issue within Wireshark.