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Packet Analysis with Wireshark

One week to seeing what is really on the wire

A one-week classroom course on the core chapters of the Wireshark User's Guide: the user interface, capturing live network data, file input and output, working with captured packets, and statistics. Captures are made on the classroom's own lab network. This course prepares for no exam.

6Modules
IntermediateLevel
1 weekDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL

What you will be able to do

Capture traffic on a chosen interface
Filter a capture down to one conversation
Read a TCP handshake and a DNS lookup

Course outline

01
Introduction and installing Wireshark
02
The user interface
03
Capturing live network data
04
File input, output and printing
05
Working with captured packets: filtering and finding
06
Statistics

Tools you will use

Wireshark

What you need

Basic networking: IP addresses, ports and protocols

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