Skip to Content
Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition
book

Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition

by Chris Sanders
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 56m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Practical Packet Analysis, 2nd Edition

Installing Wireshark

The Wireshark installation process is surprisingly simple. However, before you install Wireshark, make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

  • 400 MHz processor or faster

  • 128MB RAM

  • At least 75MB of available storage space

  • NIC that supports promiscuous mode

  • WinPcap capture driver

The WinPcap capture driver is the Windows implementation of the pcap packet-capturing application programming interface (API). Simply put, this driver interacts with your operating system to capture raw packet data, apply filters, and switch the NIC in and out of promiscuous mode.

Although you can download WinPcap separately (from http://www.winpcap.org/), it is typically better to install WinPcap from the Wireshark installation package, because ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Practical Packet Analysis, 3rd Edition

Practical Packet Analysis, 3rd Edition

Chris Sanders
Practical Malware Analysis

Practical Malware Analysis

Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781593272661Errata