Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook - Second Edition
by Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Yoram Orzach, Yogesh Ramdoss
How it works...
This recipe explains how Wireshark can be used to troubleshoot networking bottleneck issues. The working mechanism may vary depending on the type of traffic in the network. Ideally, the flow is a combination of different protocols. For example, a client that is trying to establish a session with the application server will use a name resolution protocol such as DNS to identify the IP address of the end server.
Once the IP address is received, it may send TCP SYN to establish a TCP session if the transport protocol is TCP (for example, HTTP or FTP). If the transport protocol for the application is UDP (for example, QUIC), it will simply send the application request over UDP packets. The server, upon receiving the request, will ...
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