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Wireshark Course Content

This document outlines the course content for a Wireshark course. It includes 6 labs that cover hands-on exercises with Wireshark, configuring Wireshark displays and filters, capturing and analyzing packet captures from different network points, and using Wireshark to troubleshoot common network and application issues. The labs progress from basic Wireshark use to more advanced traffic analysis and troubleshooting topics like scans, DoS attacks, UDP, TCP, and identifying client, network or server issues.

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Wireshark Course Content

This document outlines the course content for a Wireshark course. It includes 6 labs that cover hands-on exercises with Wireshark, configuring Wireshark displays and filters, capturing and analyzing packet captures from different network points, and using Wireshark to troubleshoot common network and application issues. The labs progress from basic Wireshark use to more advanced traffic analysis and troubleshooting topics like scans, DoS attacks, UDP, TCP, and identifying client, network or server issues.

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WIRESHARK COURSE CONTENT

LAB 1 - HANDS-ON WITH WIRESHARK

LAB 1 - WALKTHROUGH - HANDS-ON WITH WIRESHARK

WHAT ARE WIRESHARK PROFILES AND WHY SHOULD WE


USE THEM?

CONFIGURING PROFILES, ADDING CUSTOM COLUMNS

COLORING TRAFFIC

ADJUSTING THE SCREEN LAYOUT

LAB 2 - CONFIGURING THE WIRESHARK INTERFACE


LAB 2 - WALKTHROUGH - CONFIGURING THE WIRESHARK
INTERFACE

INTRODUCTION TO WIRESHARK FILTERS

FILTERING FOR IP ADDRESSES, SOURCE OR DESTINATION

FILTERING FOR PROTOCOLS AND PORT NUMBERS

USING OPERATORS WHEN FILTERING TRAFFIC

SPECIAL OPERATORS - CONTAINS, MATCHES, AND IN

LAB: HOW TO USE SPECIAL OPERATORS WHEN FILTERING

LAB 3 - CREATING DISPLAY FILTERS IN WIRESHARK

LAB 3 - WALKTHROUGH - CREATING DISPLAY FILTERS


HOW TO CAPTURE IN A SWITCHED ENVIRONMENT - LOCAL
CAPTURE VS SPAN VS TAP

CAPTURING AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

CAPTURING TRAFFIC WITH THE WIRESHARK USER


INTERFACE

HOW TO CAPTURE INTERMITTENT PROBLEMS - LONG TERM


CAPTURE CONFIGURATION

HOW AND WHERE TO CAPTURE PACKETS

PACKETS AND THE OSI MODEL

ETHERNET - THE FRAME HEADER

UNICASTS VS BROADCASTS VS MULTICASTS


THE INTERNET PROTOCOL - LEARNING THE HEADER VALUES

FOLLOWING A PACKET THROUGH THE NETWORK - RE-


ENCAPSULATION

LAB 4 - ANALYZING A PACKET FROM MULTIPLE CAPTURE


POINTS

LAB 4 - WALKTHROUGH - ANALYZING A PACKET

DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE IP ID

HOW TO USE THE TTL FIELD

HOW IP FRAGMENTATION WORKS

THE IP FLAGS

WHOA! INVESTIGATING SUSPECT SCAN ACTIVITY


A LOOK AT IPV6

CONFIGURING WIRESHARK TO FIND GEOIP LOCATIONS

ANALYZING A DDOS ATTACK WITH GEOIP

LAB 5 - IS THIS SCAN AS BAD AS IT LOOKS

LAB 5 - WALKTHROUGH - IS THIS SCAN AS BAD AS IT


LOOKS?

UDP - PRACTICAL

UDP INTRO

THE UDP HEADER EXPLAINED

HOW DHCP WORKS

ANALYZING DNS
TROUBLESHOOTING VOIP AND VIDEO STREAMS

UDP REVIEW

PRACTICAL TCP - THE HANDSHAKE

HANDS-ON WITH TCP FLAGS

ANALYZING TCP OPTIONS

HOW SEQUENCE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT NUMBERS WORK

DIGGING INTO RETRANSMISSIONS

FINS VS RESETS

LAB 6 - IS IT THE CLIENT, NETWORK, OR SERVER?


LAB 6- WALKTHROUGH - IS IT THE CLIENT, NETWORK, OR
SERVER?

TCP ANALYSIS REVIEW

TOP 5 KNOW ISSUES IN THE NETWORK AND


TROUBLESHOOTING WITH WIRESHARK

1. SLOW APPLICATIONS RESPONSE TIME

2. HIGH NETWORK LATENCY

3. NETWORK PACKET LOSS

4. SLOW FILE TRANSFERS - TCP WINDOW PROBLEMS

5. NETWORK/APPLICATION DISCONNECTS - TCP RESETS

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