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The Wireshark Field Guide: Analyzing and Troubleshooting Network Traffic
The Wireshark Field Guide provides hackers, pen testers, and network administrators with practical guidance on capturing and interactively browsing computer network traffic. Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, with a rich feature set that includes deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, live capture, offline analysis and many other features.
The Wireshark Field Guide covers the installation, configuration and use of this powerful multi-platform tool. The book give readers the hands-on skills to be more productive with Wireshark as they drill down into the information contained in real-time network traffic. Readers will learn the fundamentals of packet capture and inspection, the use of color codes and filters, deep analysis, including probes and taps, and much more.
The Wireshark Field Guide is an indispensable companion for network technicians, operators, and engineers.
Learn the fundamentals of using Wireshark in a concise field manual Quickly create functional filters that will allow you to get to work quickly on solving problems Understand the myriad of options and the deep functionality of Wireshark Solve common network problems Learn some advanced features, methods and helpful ways to work more quickly and efficiently
The Wireshark Field Guide covers the installation, configuration and use of this powerful multi-platform tool. The book give readers the hands-on skills to be more productive with Wireshark as they drill down into the information contained in real-time network traffic. Readers will learn the fundamentals of packet capture and inspection, the use of color codes and filters, deep analysis, including probes and taps, and much more.
The Wireshark Field Guide is an indispensable companion for network technicians, operators, and engineers.
Learn the fundamentals of using Wireshark in a concise field manual Quickly create functional filters that will allow you to get to work quickly on solving problems Understand the myriad of options and the deep functionality of Wireshark Solve common network problems Learn some advanced features, methods and helpful ways to work more quickly and efficiently
128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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December 21, 2017
This book is extremely small (physically and in terms of page count), and it was a quick read. Unfortunately, this was also an indication of the overall content in the book.
When I bought the book at the Microsoft Ignite conference this year, I was hoping for something that spent a lot of time talking about common network problems/application problems and troubleshooting those with Wireshark. I'd used Wireshark fairly regularly over the years, and I was hoping to grow my toolset.
What I got with this book, though, was largely a walk-through of the tool itself - which wasn't particularly useful to me. I didn't need to learn how to run a packet capture, how to apply filters, etc.; I needed applied scenarios.
The book DOES include some troubleshooting scenarios, but they don't represent the bulk of the book. The bulk of the book is simply a walk-through of the Wireshark tool - nothing more, nothing less.
If you need to learn how to use the Wireshark application and/or have never used Wireshark before, the roughly 125 pages of this book will probably be useful to you. But if you're like me in wanting to see large numbers of applied scenarios, then you'll probably be disappointed. A handful of them are present in this book, but they're not extensively discussed.
When I bought the book at the Microsoft Ignite conference this year, I was hoping for something that spent a lot of time talking about common network problems/application problems and troubleshooting those with Wireshark. I'd used Wireshark fairly regularly over the years, and I was hoping to grow my toolset.
What I got with this book, though, was largely a walk-through of the tool itself - which wasn't particularly useful to me. I didn't need to learn how to run a packet capture, how to apply filters, etc.; I needed applied scenarios.
The book DOES include some troubleshooting scenarios, but they don't represent the bulk of the book. The bulk of the book is simply a walk-through of the Wireshark tool - nothing more, nothing less.
If you need to learn how to use the Wireshark application and/or have never used Wireshark before, the roughly 125 pages of this book will probably be useful to you. But if you're like me in wanting to see large numbers of applied scenarios, then you'll probably be disappointed. A handful of them are present in this book, but they're not extensively discussed.
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