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_5

5. Analyzing Control Plane Traffic

Vinit Jain¹  

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San Jose, CA, USA

 

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Analyzing routing protocol traffic

• Analyzing overlay traffic

Analyzing Routing Protocol Traffic

So far, we have learned how to set up Wireshark, perform packet captures, and analyze Layer 2 to Layer 4 traffic. Most of the traffic that we have looked at so far is data traffic. When we are dealing with packet loss in the network, we usually try to understand the problem based on what is happening in the network: Is there an errored link in the network dropping the traffic? Is network ...