Wireshark 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis Author: Laura Chappell Gerald Combs | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BF50LD0 | Format: EPUB
Wireshark 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis Description
This book, which we refer to simply as "Wireshark 101," is based on over 20 years of analyzing networks and teaching key analysis skills. It's the book so many people have asked for and is written with clear, concise instructions covering key analysis tasks.
If you take a quick look at the Table of Contents or Index, you'll see this book is packed with 46 step-by-step labs to help you master these key Wireshark skills. Some of the skills covered include:
- Filter on addresses, protocols, fields or traffic characteristics
- Create custom columns for more efficient analysis
- Find the source of delays with filters and coloring rules
- Perform unattended captures with auto-stop conditions
- Filter on keywords using wildcards and regular expressions
- Graph and compare user, subnet and application traffic
- Reassemble and extract a file from captured traffic
- Identify DNS and HTTP errors fast
- Export important packet details to .csv format
...and more
- File Size: 11979 KB
- Print Length: 372 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1893939723
- Publisher: Chappell University; 1 edition (February 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BF50LD0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,609 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I was unable to attend a week-long Wireshark training, so I got this book and worked through the whole thing on my own in a few days. It's excellent--lots of hands-on projects, and very clear instructions. Wireshark is essential for anyone serious about networks, either from the admin or security side, and there are lots of important techniques in this book that I never learned in years of working with Ethereal and Wireshark.
The accuracy is impressive too. I read books like this very carefully, testing each off-hand comment and reference, and the two times I though I found mistakes, Laura was right and I was wrong. This is what I hope for most when I get textbooks--the author is smarter than me! Researching the issues mentioned in this book taught me a lot more about Ethernet than I ever knew before.
By the way, I highly recommend watching the author's Sharkfest presentation which summarizes the material in this book and demonstrates the principal techniques:
http://www.securitytube.net/video/7987
That video plus this book is almost as good as a real face-to-face class.
After going through this, I plan to get the Wireshark certification.
By Sam Bowne
I've known about Wireshark since it was called Ethereal, but I never used it. One reason was that I disliked running X11 on my older Mac, but also I thought that it was overkill for the limited kind of network debugging I am capable of. I simply used tcpdump and if I needed to slice and dice something, I wrote scripts to tease out whatever I needed.
Silly me. Recently I ran into something that tested my patience and required more scripting than I wanted to tackle, so I installed Wireshark. My newer Mac ran it without complaint and I immediately saw that it had the power I needed (and then some).
But how to learn it? I found this book and, although the high price put me off a bit, I bought it. I spent quite a few hours reading and doing the labs and and even more happy that I finally did this. Yes, Wireshark can do things that I'll likely never need to do. But it can also do things that I DO need to do and (with the help of this book) I can do them with a mouse-click or two.
Highly recommended!
By Anthony Lawrence
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