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Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

By : Orzach
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Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook

4.6 (7)
By: Orzach

Overview of this book

Is your network slow? Are your users complaining? Disconnections? IP Telephony problems? Video freezes? Network analysis is the process of isolating these problems and fixing them, and Wireshark has long been the most popular network analyzer for achieving this goal. Based on hundreds of solved cases, Network Analysis using Wireshark Cookbook provides you with practical recipes for effective Wireshark network analysis to analyze and troubleshoot your network. "Network analysis using Wireshark Cookbook" highlights the operations of Wireshark as a network analyzer tool. This book provides you with a set of practical recipes to help you solve any problems in your network using a step-by-step approach. "Network analysis using Wireshark Cookbook" starts by discussing the capabilities of Wireshark, such as the statistical tools and the expert system, capture and display filters, and how to use them. The book then guides you through the details of the main networking protocols, that is, Ethernet, LAN switching, and TCP/IP, and then discusses the details of application protocols and their behavior over the network. Among the application protocols that are discussed in the book are standard Internet protocols like HTTP, mail protocols, FTP, and DNS, along with the behavior of databases, terminal server clients, Citrix, and other applications that are common in the IT environment. In a bottom-up troubleshooting approach, the book goes up through the layers of the OSI reference model explaining how to resolve networking problems. The book starts from Ethernet and LAN switching, through IP, and then on to TCP/UDP with a focus on TCP performance problems. It also focuses on WLAN security. Then, we go through application behavior issues including HTTP, mail, DNS, and other common protocols. The book finishes with a look at network forensics and how to search and find security problems that might harm the network.
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Measuring bandwidth and throughput per user and per application over a network connection

In many cases, we need to know not only the total bandwidth of a connection, (communication line or on a server port), but also who exactly are the consumers, that is from which IP addresses and port numbers the traffic is coming. In this recipe, we will see how to measure it.

In order to see this, you can use proprietary tools that collect the data from the switch (RMON1, RMON2, sFlow) or router (Cisco Netflow or Juniper Jflow), or to use Wireshark with port mirror to the communication link, and this is what we'll learn in this recipe.

Getting ready

For using Wireshark to get traffic distribution, connect a laptop with a port mirror to the link you wish to monitor and start packet capture. You can also use the Tshark command from the CLI.

How to do it...

For basic statistics on users and applications that are using the communications link, perform the following steps:

  • For general statistics:
    1. From the...

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