Appendix A. Further Reading

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Although the tool used primarily in this book is Wireshark, a great deal of additional tools will come in handy when you’re performing packet analysis—whether it be for general troubleshooting, slow networks, security issues, or wireless networks. This chapter lists some useful packet analysis tools and other packet analysis learning resources.

Packet Analysis Tools

There are several tools that are useful for packet analysis in addition to Wireshark. Here, we’ll look at a few of the ones I have found most useful.

tcpdump and Windump

Although Wireshark is very popular, it is probably less widely used than tcpdump. Considered ...

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