Chapter 1. Welcome to the World of Packet Analysis with Wireshark
This chapter provides you an introduction to the basics of the TCP/IP model and familiarizes you with the GUI of Wireshark along with a sample packet capture. You will be introduced to the following topics:
- What is Wireshark?
- How does it work?
- A brief overview of the TCP/IP model
- An introduction to packet analysis
- Why use Wireshark?
- Understanding the GUI of Wireshark
- The first packet capture
Introduction to Wireshark
Wireshark is one of the most advanced packet capturing software, which makes the life of system/network administrators easy and proves its usefulness among the groups of security evangelists. Wireshark is also called a protocol analyzer, which helps IT professionals in debugging ...
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