Wireshark 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis

by Laura A. Chappell, Gerald Combs

This book is written for beginner analysts and includes 46 step-by-step labs to walk you through many of the essential skills contained herein. This book provides an ideal starting point whether you are interested in analyzing traffic to learn how an application works, you need to troubleshoot slow network performance, or determine whether a machine is infected with malware. Learning to capture and analyze communications with Wireshark will help you really understand how TCP/IP networks function. As the most popular network analyzer tool in the world, the time you spend honing your skills with Wireshark will pay off when you read technical specs, marketing materials, security briefings, and more. This book can also be used by current analysts who need to practice the skills contained in this book. In essence, this book is for anyone who really wants to know what's happening on their network.

Genres: Technical, Technology, Amazon, Computers

370 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

About the author

Laura Chappell is the Founder of Protocol Analysis Institute, Inc., Wireshark University, and Chappell University, and the creator of the WCNA Certification.

Reviews

[Jacek Królikowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately it's very basic - most of the book is about basic traffic filtering and configuration details that you could easily do without or look up if you do need them.

The fact that the second edition goes out of its way not to mention SSL/TLS (literally not a single time) while having most of the examples based on HTTP traffic makes it feel divorced from reality, and the authors stuck in twenty years ago.

Definitely not worth the money the book goes for, I'll be looking for a better alternative

[Sean Gaines · Rating 5 out of 5]

It provides what it says it will on the cover. Very helpful, great step by step instructions with everything one would expect from a technical guide. Make sure you have the ability to actually capture packets before reading, you need to know how to physically and logically do so and have the tools to do so before using Wireshark. Good reference to have afterwards as well. Good investment in a used copy.

[Tom Hinkle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for beginners using Wireshark. It is also a good book to have for reverting back to as a reference when troubleshooting network issues.

[Branko Jovanovski · Rating 5 out of 5]

great way to start

[Joshua]

A must read for any Network Engineer