Wireshark 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis

by Laura A. Chappell, Gerald Combs (Foreword)

Wireshark is the world's most popular network analyzer tool with over 1 million downloads per month. As the Founder of Wireshark University, Laura Chappell is undoubtedly one of the best Wireshark instructors around.

In this updated book, Laura offers step-by-step instructions on the key functions and features of Wireshark, including:

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

This book includes 46 step-by-step Labs to quickly bring you up to speed with Wireshark version 2 regardless of whether you are a newbie or already working with Wireshark today!

Genres: Technical, Technology, Amazon, Computers

Kindle Edition

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