Packet Analysis Power Workshop (Wireshark), South Africa

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During this 5 day instructor led training course, delegates will receive a comprehensive introduction into the features, functions and the usage of the Wireshark Analyser and will learn methods and techniques about monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of their networks from the packet level. This course will also focus on the detailed analysis and troubleshooting of typical network protocols and applications with specific focus on switched Ethernet, TCP/IP networks and TCP/IP based applications.

Delegates are required to attend the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

Networking & TCP/IP Fundamentals (NWF)

Features, functions and basic operation of Wireshark Analyzer

Introduction and operation of Wireshark
Live Capture and Live Capture settings
Display options and basic interpretation
Working with Display Filters and Capture Filters
File Input and Output

Advanced features of Wireshark Analyzer

Preferences and user profiles
Name resolution
Reconstructing user data – Protocol reassembly
Packet colorization

Methodology and techniques of network analysis

What is packet analysis?
Steps and techniques for analyzing traffic
Analysing Switched Ethernet - Tapping into the network
Capturing wireless network traffic
Measuring network delay and response time
Measuring network throughput and overhead

Statistics and Baselining

Baselining of networks and applications
Wireshark statistics

Analysing networks and applications

Typical network related problems
Application types and typical application related problems
'Is it the network or the application?' – Fault isolation
Analysing and reconstructing voice traffic

Switched Ethernet analysis

Spanning Tree operation and Spanning Tree analysis
Analysing VLANs, VLAN-Tagging

TCP/IP analysis of the network layer

IP addressing
Typical IP scenarios
IP options
ICMP, ARP and DHCP

TCP/IP analysis of the transport layer

TCP functions
Session Setup, Data Transfer and Session Teardown
Window Mechanism and Window optimization
TCP options (SACK, Window Scaling) and TCP timers
UDP functions

Analysing TCP/IP with Wireshark

Wireshark preferences for advanced TCP/IP analysis
Typical TCP/IP related problems
Wireshark Expert Info messages and their meanings

TCP/IP applications

HTTP
FTP
DNS
SSL

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

10 August 2024