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Wireshark Network Security

You're reading from   Wireshark Network Security A succinct guide to securely administer your network using Wireshark

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393335
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Piyush Verma Piyush Verma
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Creating a custom profile for troubleshooting

We will first go ahead and create a rock-solid profile for the purpose of troubleshooting and then take a look at the different issues that might hinder network performance.

By now, I assume that you're comfortable with creating profiles in Wireshark. The highlights of the profile are as follows:

  1. Uncheck/disable the Allow subdissector to reassemble TCP streams option. This should only be enabled while getting the HTTP or SMB objects.
  2. To deal with sequencing issues in TCP, we first need to enable Analyze TCP sequence numbers under Preferences | Protocols | TCP. The following is how my TCP Preferences look like:
    Creating a custom profile for troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting profile: TCP Preferences

    Next, put the sequence number, next sequence number, and acknowledgment number into three different columns in Wireshark for ease of analyzing the TCP sequencing as shown in the next screenshot.

  3. "Time" is always a major factor when looking for delays on the network and hence we will begin...
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