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Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook

You're reading from Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook Practical recipes to analyze and secure your network using Wireshark 2

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786461674

Length 626 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (3):

Nagendra Kumar Nainar

Yoram Orzach

Yogesh Ramdoss

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Wireshark Version 2 FREE CHAPTER

2. Mastering Wireshark for Network Troubleshooting

3. Using Capture Filters

4. Using Display Filters

5. Using Basic Statistics Tools

6. Using Advanced Statistics Tools

7. Using the Expert System

8. Ethernet and LAN Switching

9. Wireless LAN

10. Network Layer Protocols and Operations

11. Transport Layer Protocol Analysis

12. FTP, HTTP/1, and HTTP/2

13. DNS Protocol Analysis

14. Analyzing Mail Protocols

15. NetBIOS and SMB Protocol Analysis

16. Analyzing Enterprise Applications' Behavior

17. Troubleshooting SIP, Multimedia, and IP Telephony

18. Troubleshooting Bandwidth and Delay Issues

19. Security and Network Forensics

Using the statistics – capture file properties menu

In this recipe, we will learn how to get general information from the data that runs over the network. The capture file properties in Wireshark 2 replaces the summary menu in Wireshark 1.

Getting ready

Start Wireshark, click on Statistics.

How to do it...

From the Statistics menu, choose Capture File Properties:

What you will get is the Capture File Properties window (displayed in the following screenshot).

As you can see in the following screenshot, we have the following:
- File: Provides file data, such as...

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Authors (3)

Nagendra Kumar Nainar

Nagendra Kumar Nainar

Nagendra Kumar Nainar (CCIE#20987) is a senior technical leader with RP escalation team in Cisco Systems. He is the co-inventor of more than 80 patent applications and the coauthor of six internet RFCs, various internet drafts and IEEE papers. He is a guest lecturer in North Carolina State University and a speaker in different network forums.

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Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach

Yoram Orzach is a senior networks and networks security advisor, providing network design and network security consulting services to a range of clients. Having spent thirty years in network and information security, Yoram has worked as a network and security engineer across many verticals in roles ranging from a network engineer, security consultant, and instructor. Yoram has gained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Yoram's experience is both with corporate networks; service providers and Internet service providers' networks. His customers are Motorola solutions, Elbit Systems, 888, Taboola, Bezeq, PHI Networks, Cellcom, Strauss group, and many other hi-tech companies.

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Yogesh Ramdoss

Yogesh Ramdoss

Yogesh Ramdoss (CCIE #16183) is a senior technical leader in the technical services organization of Cisco Systems. He is a distinguished speaker at CiscoLive, sharing knowledge and educating customers on enterprise/datacenter technologies and platforms, troubleshooting and packet capturing tools, and open network programmability. Co-inventor of patent in machine/behavior learning.

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