Practical Packet Analysis

Introduction

I got my first computer when I was nine years old. As things go with technology, it broke within about a year. It was enough of a stretch for my family to afford a computer in the first place, and paying for it to be fixed was just financially impossible. However, after a little reading and experimentation, I fixed the computer myself, and that's where my interest in technology began.

That interest evolved into a passion through high school and college, and as that passion grew, so did my abilities, naturally leading me to situations in which I really needed to dig further into network and computer problems. This is when I stumbled upon the Wireshark project (it was called Ethereal at the time). This software allowed me to enter a ...