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WIRESHARK COURSE CONTENT

LAB 1 - HANDS-ON WITH WIRESHARK

LAB 1 - WALKTHROUGH - HANDS-ON WITH WIRESHARK

WHAT ARE WIRESHARK PROFILES AND WHY SHOULD WE


USE THEM?

CONFIGURING PROFILES, ADDING CUSTOM COLUMNS

COLORING TRAFFIC

ADJUSTING THE SCREEN LAYOUT

LAB 2 - CONFIGURING THE WIRESHARK INTERFACE


LAB 2 - WALKTHROUGH - CONFIGURING THE WIRESHARK
INTERFACE

INTRODUCTION TO WIRESHARK FILTERS

FILTERING FOR IP ADDRESSES, SOURCE OR DESTINATION

FILTERING FOR PROTOCOLS AND PORT NUMBERS

USING OPERATORS WHEN FILTERING TRAFFIC

SPECIAL OPERATORS - CONTAINS, MATCHES, AND IN

LAB: HOW TO USE SPECIAL OPERATORS WHEN FILTERING

LAB 3 - CREATING DISPLAY FILTERS IN WIRESHARK

LAB 3 - WALKTHROUGH - CREATING DISPLAY FILTERS


HOW TO CAPTURE IN A SWITCHED ENVIRONMENT - LOCAL
CAPTURE VS SPAN VS TAP

CAPTURING AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

CAPTURING TRAFFIC WITH THE WIRESHARK USER


INTERFACE

HOW TO CAPTURE INTERMITTENT PROBLEMS - LONG TERM


CAPTURE CONFIGURATION

HOW AND WHERE TO CAPTURE PACKETS

PACKETS AND THE OSI MODEL

ETHERNET - THE FRAME HEADER

UNICASTS VS BROADCASTS VS MULTICASTS


THE INTERNET PROTOCOL - LEARNING THE HEADER VALUES

FOLLOWING A PACKET THROUGH THE NETWORK - RE-


ENCAPSULATION

LAB 4 - ANALYZING A PACKET FROM MULTIPLE CAPTURE


POINTS

LAB 4 - WALKTHROUGH - ANALYZING A PACKET

DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE IP ID

HOW TO USE THE TTL FIELD

HOW IP FRAGMENTATION WORKS

THE IP FLAGS

WHOA! INVESTIGATING SUSPECT SCAN ACTIVITY


A LOOK AT IPV6

CONFIGURING WIRESHARK TO FIND GEOIP LOCATIONS

ANALYZING A DDOS ATTACK WITH GEOIP

LAB 5 - IS THIS SCAN AS BAD AS IT LOOKS

LAB 5 - WALKTHROUGH - IS THIS SCAN AS BAD AS IT


LOOKS?

UDP - PRACTICAL

UDP INTRO

THE UDP HEADER EXPLAINED

HOW DHCP WORKS

ANALYZING DNS
TROUBLESHOOTING VOIP AND VIDEO STREAMS

UDP REVIEW

PRACTICAL TCP - THE HANDSHAKE

HANDS-ON WITH TCP FLAGS

ANALYZING TCP OPTIONS

HOW SEQUENCE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NUMBERS WORK

DIGGING INTO RETRANSMISSIONS

FINS VS RESETS

LAB 6 - IS IT THE CLIENT, NETWORK, OR SERVER?


LAB 6- WALKTHROUGH - IS IT THE CLIENT, NETWORK, OR
SERVER?

TCP ANALYSIS REVIEW

TOP 5 KNOW ISSUES IN THE NETWORK AND


TROUBLESHOOTING WITH WIRESHARK

1. SLOW APPLICATIONS RESPONSE TIME

2. HIGH NETWORK LATENCY

3. NETWORK PACKET LOSS

4. SLOW FILE TRANSFERS - TCP WINDOW PROBLEMS

5. NETWORK/APPLICATION DISCONNECTS - TCP RESETS

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