Learning Python Networking - Second Edition
by José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
Introduction to Wireshark
Wireshark is a network packet analysis tool that captures packets in real time and displays them in a graphic interface. Wireshark includes filters, color coding, and other features that allow you to analyze network traffic and inspect packets individually.
Wireshark implements a wide range of filters that facilitate the definition of search criteria for the more than 1,000 protocols it currently supports. All of this happens through a simple and intuitive interface that allows each of the captured packages to be broken down into layers.
Thanks to Wireshark understanding the structure of these protocols, we can visualize the fields of each of the headers and layers that make up the packages, providing a wide range ...
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