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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 the statistics – protocol hierarchy menu

In this recipe, we will learn how to get protocol hierarchy information of the data that runs over the network.

Getting ready

Start Wireshark, click on Statistics.

How to do it...

From the Statistics menu, choose Protocol Hierarchy:

What you will get is data about the protocol distribution in the captured file. You will get the protocol distribution of the captured data.

The partial screenshot displayed here depicts the statistics of packets captured on a per-protocol basis:

What you will get is the Protocol Hierarchy window:

Protocol: The protocol name
Percent Packets: The percentage of protocol packets from the total captured packets
Packets: The number of protocol packets from the total captured packets
Percent Bytes: The percentage of protocol bytes from the total captured packets
Bytes: The number of protocol bytes from the total captured packets
Bit/s: The bandwidth of this protocol, in relation to the capture time
End Packets: The absolute number of...