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N. K. Nainar, A. PandaWireshark for Network Forensicshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9001-9_1

1. Wireshark Primer

Nagendra Kumar Nainar1   and Ashish Panda2
(1)
North Carolina, NC, USA
(2)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 
This chapter introduces you to Wireshark and covers basics of the tool, packet capture, and display and filtering techniques. Some of the topics covered in this chapter will be discussed in detail in subsequent chapters. The following is a summary of the concepts you will learn in this chapter:

  • Introduction to Wireshark architecture

  • Wireshark package installation and usage

  • Basic analysis and filtering

  • Wireshark cloud services

  • Version and feature parity ...

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