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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

A device that generates broadcasts

A typical broadcast storm generated from a specific device will have the following characteristics:

  • A significant number of broadcasts per second (thousands and more)
  • In most cases, the broadcasts will be from a single source; but in the case of attacks, they can be from multiple sources
  • Usually in constant packet/second rate, that is, with intervals between frames that are nearly equal

Let us see how we can find a broadcast storm according to the parameters mentioned in the preceding list in the next three screenshots.

In the following screenshot, we see a large number of broadcast packets sent from a source MAC (HP network adapter) to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:

Figure 8.1: Broadcast flooding

As seen in the ...

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ISBN: 9781786461674