Mastering Wireshark 2

4,122 students enrolled

Mastering Wireshark 2

Secure your network with ease by leveraging this step-by-step tutorial on the powerful Wireshark 2

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4,122 students enrolled

Created by Packt Publishing

Last updated 2/2017

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What you'll learn

Understand what network and protocol analysis is, and how it can help you
Use Wireshark to capture packets in your network
Filter captured traffic to only show what you need
Find out about useful statistics displays to make it easier to diagnose issues
Customize Wireshark to your own specifications
Analyze common network protocols and common network application protocols

+ – Installation and Setup

3 lectures 10:36

This video gives an overview of the entire course.

The Course Overview

Preview 01:52

The aim of this video is to teach you how to install Wireshark on Windows.

Installing Wireshark on Windows

03:37

Installing Wireshark on Mac and Linux

05:07

+ – Getting Started

6 lectures 35:48

What are the major changes in Wireshark 2 and how are they helpful to you?

What’s New in Wireshark 2?

Preview 03:29

This video teaches you how to perform a basic packet capture on an interface.

Capturing Traffic

07:50

Learn the various methods and formats you can use to save and export your captured packets. See how to export a selection of packets.

Saving and Exporting Packets

07:46

Learn how to annotate and comment your packet captures. Print packets and selections of packets for offline viewing.

Annotating and Printing Packets

08:35

How to set up pcap on a computer separate from the Wireshark interface for remote capture.

Remote Capture Setup

05:16

How to remotely capture traffic across the network.

Remote Capture Usage

02:52

+ – Filtering Traffic

5 lectures 33:11

Learn about the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) syntax.

Preview 04:51

How to filter what traffic is captured using BPF syntax?

Capture Filters

03:17

Discover how to sift through the masses of packets in a capture, and display just what you need.

Display Filters

10:14

How to find individual conversations within a packet capture? This is accomplished by following TCP or UDP streams.

Follow Streams

06:06

Learn how to filter traffic on a certain data field and other advanced methods.

Advanced Filtering

08:43

+ – Customizing

4 lectures 32:11

Understand where and how to change Wireshark preferences.

Preview 10:45

Learn how to switch between profiles and why one would want to do so. Also, learn to create your own profiles.

Profiles

05:24

Learn how Wireshark applies coloring rules, and how to create your own rules.

Colorizing Traffic

09:51

Learn how to apply coloring rules to real-life analysis situations such as for HTTP and DNS.

Colorizing Traffic (Continued)

06:11

+ – Statistics

4 lectures 26:06

Learn the basics of TCP/IP, how packets are built and the resolution processes.

TCP/IP Overview

Preview 08:31

Learn how to use the time column to help troubleshoot network issues.

Time Values and Summaries

05:21

Display useful statistics to help bring to light inconsistencies in a capture.

Trace File Statistics

07:49

Learn about the Expert System to easily pick out problems that have been automatically found in a packet capture.

Expert System Usage

04:25

+ – Introductory Analysis

4 lectures 32:54

How does DNS work, what are some common issues with DNS and how do they look in Wireshark?

Preview 09:45

ARP is required for Layer 2 communications; learn to diagnose ARP issues in a network.

ARP Analysis

07:14

Learn the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, and detect issues such as fragmentation and broadcast storms.

IPv4/6 Analysis

07:15

What is ICMP, why is it helpful in troubleshooting a network, and what problems can occur with ICMP?

ICMP Analysis

08:40

+ – Network Protocol Analysis

4 lectures 32:42

Learn the basics of UDP, a protocol that provides quick, connectionless communications.

Preview 05:08

Learn the basics of picking apart TCP headers and what to look for.

TCP Analysis I

10:40

Dive deep into issues that can be detected with Wireshark in TCP.

TCP Analysis II

06:22

Use graphs to help visualize your packet capture and easily see data flow issues.

Graph I/O Rates and TCP Trends

10:32

+ – Application Protocol Analysis I

4 lectures 37:23

Learn about common issues with DHCP, used to automatically address clients.

Preview 09:40

Learn the basics of HTTP and common diagnostics for HTTP troubleshooting.

HTTP Analysis I

10:26

Dive deep into additional issues with HTTP and observe them in Wireshark.

HTTP Analysis II

07:06

File transfers can often have problems, learn the basics of analyzing FTP issues such as with Passive Mode.

FTP Analysis

10:11

+ – Application Protocol Analysis II

4 lectures 40:47

The aim of this video is to learn how to analyze POP and SMTP connections and packet structures.

Preview 11:26

Wireless is continually becoming more important every day; learn how to analyze Wi-Fi connection issues such as signal strength, channel selection, and more.

802.11 Analysis

11:40

Converged networks are now the norm. Learn how SIP works for voice traffic, and how a connection is created.

VoIP Analysis

11:42

Dive deep into SIP and learn how to reconstruct a phone call to listen for quality issues.

VoIP Playback

05:59

+ – Command Line Tools

4 lectures 22:56

In this video, you will learn how to run Wireshark from the command line and explore its options.

Running Wireshark from Command Line

Preview 07:51

In this video, you will learn how to run the terminal-version of Wireshark to capture traffic.

Running Tshark

04:12

In this video, you will learn how to run the most common *nix dump tool.

Running tcpdump

06:48

In this video, you will learn how to run dumpcap, an alternative to tcpdump.

Running Dumpcap

04:05

Requirements

This step-by-step tutorial on Wireshark 2 starts with capturing and filtering traffic and follows with analysis and statistics, as well as all the new features of Wireshark 2.

Description

Wireshark is a popular and powerful tool used to analyze the amount of bits and bytes that are flowing through a network. Wireshark deals with the second to seventh layer of network protocols, and the analysis made is presented in a human readable form.

Through this video, you will gain expertise in securing your network using Wireshark 2. At the start of the video, you will be taught how to install Wireshark, and will be introduced to its interface so you understand all its functionalities. Moving forward, you will discover different ways to create and use capture and display filters. Halfway through the video, you’ll be mastering the features of Wireshark, analyzing different layers of the network protocol, and looking for any anomalies. You will also learn about plugins and APIs.

As you reach to the end of the course, you will be taught how to use Wireshark for network security analysis and configure it for troubleshooting purposes.

About The Author

Andrew Crouthamel is an experienced Senior Network Engineer and IT trainer who resides in Doylestown, PA, and currently works with organizations such as NASA, ESA, JAXA, Boeing, and the US Air Force. His passion for teaching shows in his courses, which are filled with excitement and real world anecdotes.

Who this course is for:

This video is for network administrators who have a basic knowledge of Wireshark and are now looking to master it.

Featured review

praveen uprety ( 49 courses, 4 reviews )

a week ago

Good presentation- learned a lot for sure. However - was disappointed as the material focused on a windows platform rather than Linux. Wireshark is a popular program for all users for sure, however is used predominately in a Linux platform.