Preface

Welcome to The Wireshark Field Guide: Analyzing and Troubleshooting Network Traffic book, your guide to get up to speed using Wireshark in a quick and efficient manner. This book provides hackers, pen testers, and network administrators with practical guidance on capturing and interactively browsing the traffic running on a computer network. Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, with a rich feature set that includes deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, live capture, offline analysis, and many other features.

Wireshark is a multiplatform application that can be set up and put to work in minutes to help analyze and troubleshoot some of the most complex security problems found today. This book covers the installation, ...

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