Wireshark Fundamentals: A Network Engineer’s Handbook to Analyzing Network Traffic

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V. JainWireshark Fundamentalshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8002-7_2

2. Getting Familiar with Wireshark

Vinit Jain¹  

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San Jose, CA, USA

 

Network administrators and security analysts often work packet captures to analyze the traffic and determine the cause of network events and attacks in the network. With Wireshark being the preferred tool to capture and analyze network traffic, it is important to have an understanding of how to use Wireshark’s features and know about its options. This chapter focuses on various features and options available in Wireshark.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Overview of Wireshark tool

• Performing packet capture using ...