Chapter 8. NSM Consoles

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Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 discussed tools for packet analysis. This chapter covers NSM consoles, which are tools built specifically for NSM. Applications like Tcpdump, Tshark, Wireshark, Xplico, and NetworkMiner process live traffic or traffic saved in pcap format. When reading this chapter, you may recall features of those tools that share certain similarities with the software discussed here. Some of them generate session or extracted content data, for example, or present multiple forms of data in a single interface. The difference between the tools covered in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 and those presented in this chapter ...

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