The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Richard Stevens’s TCP/IP Illustrated Series

SANS’s Security Intrusion Detection In-Depth Course.

Practical Packet Analysis Online Course.

Filtering Specific Wireless Packet Types.

Filtering Traffic for a Specific BSS ID.

Adding Wireless-Specific Columns to the Packet List Pane.

Detecting and Analyzing Signal Interference.

Chapter 12: Packet Analysis for Security.

Learning from TCP Error-Control and Flow-Control Packets.

Halting Data Flow with a Zero Window Notification.

TCP Duplicate Acknowledgments and Fast Retransmissions.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

Chapter 9: Common Upper-Layer Protocols.

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP).

Chapter 6: Packet Analysis on the Command Line.

Identifying Top Talkers with Endpoints and Conversations.

Setting Time Display Formats and References.

Chapter 4: Working with Captured Packets.

Chapter 1: Packet Analysis and Network Basics.

No matter what your level of experience is, Practical Packet Analysis will show you how to use Wireshark to make sense of any network and get things done.

Build statistics and reports to help you better explain technical network information to non-techies.

Use advanced Wireshark features to understand confusing captures.

Graph traffic patterns to visualize the data flowing across your network.

Extract files sent across a network from packet captures.

Explore modern exploits and malware at the packet level.

Use packet analysis to troubleshoot and resolve common network problems, like loss of connectivity, DNS issues, and slow speeds.

Build customized capture and display filters.

Monitor your network in real time and tap live network communications.

Practical Packet Analysis will show you how to:

You'll find added coverage of IPv6 and SMTP, a new chapter on the powerful command line packet analyzers tcpdump and TShark, and an appendix on how to read and reference packet values using a packet map. Updated to cover Wireshark 2.x, the third edition of Practical Packet Analysis will teach you to make sense of your packet captures so that you can better troubleshoot network problems. But how do you use those packets to understand what's happening on your network? It's easy to capture packets with Wireshark, the world's most popular network sniffer, whether off the wire or from the air.

Practical packet analysis