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You're reading from Network Analysis using Wireshark 2 Cookbook Practical recipes to analyze and secure your network using Wireshark 2

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786461674

Length 626 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Wireshark

Concepts

Network Security

Authors (3):

Nagendra Kumar Nainar

Yoram Orzach

Yogesh Ramdoss

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Wireshark Version 2 FREE CHAPTER

2. Mastering Wireshark for Network Troubleshooting

3. Using Capture Filters

4. Using Display Filters

5. Using Basic Statistics Tools

6. Using Advanced Statistics Tools

7. Using the Expert System

8. Ethernet and LAN Switching

9. Wireless LAN

10. Network Layer Protocols and Operations

11. Transport Layer Protocol Analysis

12. FTP, HTTP/1, and HTTP/2

13. DNS Protocol Analysis

14. Analyzing Mail Protocols

15. NetBIOS and SMB Protocol Analysis

16. Analyzing Enterprise Applications' Behavior

17. Troubleshooting SIP, Multimedia, and IP Telephony

18. Troubleshooting Bandwidth and Delay Issues

19. Security and Network Forensics

Index

Using time values and summaries

Time format configuration is about how the time column (second from the left in the default configuration) will be presented. In some scenarios, there is an importance given to this, for example, in TCP connections where you want to see time intervals between packets, or when you capture data from several sources and you want to see the exact time of every packet.

Getting ready

To configure the time format, go to the View menu, and under Time Display Format, you will get the following window:

How to do it...

You can choose from the following options:

Date and Time of Day: This will be good to configure when you troubleshoot a network with time-dependent events, for example, when you know about an event that happens at specific times, and you want to look at what happens on the network at the same time.
Seconds Since...: Time in seconds since January 1, 1970. Epoch is an arbitrary date chosen as a reference time for a system, and January 1, 1970 was chosen for Unix...