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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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TCP Zero Window, Window Full, Window Change, and other Window indicators


One of the most important mechanisms of TCP is the Sliding Window mechanism, and the Flow Control mechanism that uses it in order to control the amount of data that a TCP end node is willing to accept on the connection.

In this recipe we will focus on these types of problems, and how to discover the problem and solve it.

Getting ready

Connect Wireshark with a port mirror to the suspected link or server, and start capture. Keep track of every window message you will see in the capture window.

How to do it...

There are several types of window messages that you should be aware of:

TCP Zero Window, Zero Window Probe, and Zero Window Violation

TCP Zero Window occurs when a receiver advertises a receive window size of zero (in the window field in the TCP header). This tells the sender to stop sending data because the receiver's buffer is full. This indicates a problem on the receiver that might be:

  • A weak server that cannot allocate...

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