Summary

In this chapter, we went over the foundations of sniffing and its practical importance in the real world, the different tools available at our disposal to perform sniffing, and understanding the Wireshark GUI to quickly get started with sniffing and perform our first packet capture. We shall begin the analysis part in the next chapter.

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