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Wireshark Essentials
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Wireshark Essentials

by James H. Baxter
October 2014
Beginner
194 pages
4h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Isolating conversations of interest

After you have completed a packet capture and saved a bulk capture file, you'll be with an almost overwhelming number of packets of various types and addresses in the Packet List pane. It's now time to par this down to just the packets that pertain to the analysis task at hand.

The idea is to progressively eliminate unrelated packets; analyze the pertinent conversations looking for anomalies; and again progressively filter, measure, and analyze packet flow and application behavior until you have discovered and can document the root cause of the issue.

There are two basic ways to isolate and inspect packets and conversations of interest, and you'll likely use both of the following methods in most of your analysis ...

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ISBN: 9781783554638