Chapter 6. COMMON PROTOCOLS
This chapter is an overview of some of the more common protocols that appear in Wireshark. We will look at sample trace files containing working examples of several different protocols and then discuss how each one functions. My goal here is to help you understand each of these protocols and give you a baseline for comparison when analyzing protocols that you suspect aren't working correctly. This chapter contains some very important basic protocol information. Skipping it would be like watching part two of a movie without seeing part one—the following chapters just won't make sense.
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I won't go into great detail about the design of each individual protocol; instead, I have provided the associated RFC number for each. ...
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