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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 – HTTP menu

In this recipe, we will learn how to use HTTP statistical information of the data that runs over the network.

Getting ready

Start Wireshark, click on Statistics.

How to do it...

To view the HTTP statistics, click on the Statistics menu and choose HTTP. The following window will appear:

In the HTTP menu, we have the following:

Packet Counter: Provides us with the number of packets to each website. This will help us see how many requests and responses we've had.
Requests: To see request distribution to websites.
Load Distribution: To see load distribution between websites.

Viewing packet counter statistics:

Choose Statistics|HTTP |Packet Counter.
The following window will open:

This window displays the total number of HTTP requests and responses.

In order to see HTTP statistics for a specific node, you can configure a filter to it, using a display filter format. This can be configured in the Display filter window.

Viewing HTTP requests statistics: