What you need for this book

The topics covered in this book require a basic understanding of TCP/IP. The examples used in this book are independent of an operating system. All the examples are executed in a MAC and Linux OS. Windows users can install Cygwin to use a Linux command-line utility. The following executables are used in this book:

  • Wireshark
  • tcpdump
  • snoop
  • dig
  • nslookup
  • java
  • wget
  • dhclient
  • nmap

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