Capturing scenario traffic

In this section, we'll take a look at capturing some traffic for our troubleshooting scenario, and checking for some obvious issues before we look into the packet capture a bit more in-depth.

In the following screenshot, we have captured the traffic from the client connecting to the server:

We will now put a filter in here for port 21 because we know that the client is connecting over standard unencrypted FTP. For that we use tcp.port == 21:

So, we got rid of everything else. We can see that there are three packets, ...

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