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You're reading from Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook This book will be a massive ally in troubleshooting your network using Wireshark, the world's most popular analyzer. Over 100 practical recipes provide a focus on real-life situations, helping you resolve your own individual issues.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849517645

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Yoram Orzach

Preface

1. Introducing Wireshark FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Capture Filters

3. Using Display Filters

4. Using Basic Statistics Tools

5. Using Advanced Statistics Tools

6. Using the Expert Infos Window

7. Ethernet, LAN Switching, and Wireless LAN

8. ARP and IP Analysis

9. UDP/TCP Analysis

10. HTTP and DNS

11. Analyzing Enterprise Applications' Behavior

12. SIP, Multimedia, and IP Telephony

13. Troubleshooting Bandwidth and Delay Problems

14. Understanding Network Security

A. Links, Tools, and Reading

Index

In this recipe, we will learn how to get protocol hierarchy information of the data that runs over the network.

Start Wireshark, click on Statistics.

To use the Protocol Hierarchy tool from the statistics menu, go through the following steps:

From the statistics menu, choose Protocol Hierarchy.
What you will get here is data about the protocol distribution in the captured file. You will get the protocol distribution of the captured data, as shown in the following screenshot:
You will get the following fields in the Protocol Hierarchy window:
- Protocol: This field specifies the protocol name
- % Packets: This field specifies the percentage of protocol packets from the total captured packets
- Packets: This field specifies the number of protocol packets from the total captured packets
- % Bytes: This field specifies the percentage of protocol bytes from the total captured packets
- Bytes: This field specifies the number...