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Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition
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Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

by Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yoram Orzach, Yogesh Ramdoss
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
17h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

To measure the bandwidth on a WAN circuit, we may need to pump some traffic at a rate close to the bandwidth to test whether the circuit can handle it or not. There are different traffic generator tools available such as iPerf, IXIA, and Spirent that can be used to pump different types of traffic. Other open source traffic generators such as Scapy, tcpreplay, or playcap can also be used to generate traffic.

To identify the average bandwidth utilization, follow these steps:

  1. Select Summary from Statistics:

The output will list the number of packets captured, Avg. MBit/sec, Avg. packet size, and so on.

  1. It also allows us to ...
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ISBN: 9781786461674