Active network analysis with Wireshark

Let's get back to the network layer and see what Wireshark can do for us once we establish a presence on the LAN. I've been sniffing for a few minutes on a network with several actively browsing clients. In a short period of time, I have a juicy amount of data to analyze:

As we can expect in today's world of casual web browsing, almost all traffic is TLS-encrypted. It's hard to even read the news or search for a dictionary definition without passing through a tunnel. Sniffing isn't what it used to be in the old days, when sitting on a LAN in promiscuous mode was everything you needed to intercept full ...

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