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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

Configuring the user interface, and global and protocol preferences

The Preferences menu enables us to adapt the display to the way we want to see it, and configuring protocol preferences provides us with the ability to change the way that Wireshark captures and presents common protocols. In this recipe, we will learn how to configure the most common protocols.

Getting ready

Go to Preferences in the Edit menu, and you will see the following window:

In the Preferences window, we have menus from which we choose what we want to configure, while the configuration parameters appear on the right.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we talk about the appearance preferences, along with protocol preferences for the most common protocols. Additional preference configurations will be provided in the relevant chapters later in this book.

Note

Since this book is about recipes to work with and improve the way the reader uses Wireshark for network analysis, we will not talk about all the features of Wireshark. I...