Wireshark

Wireshark is a free and open source packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting and analysis. These courses, lessons, and activities will show you how to use Wireshark to analyze a network.

Courses

• Internet Protocol Analysis

Lessons

• Internet Protocol Analysis - Packet Analyzers

Activities

Wireshark

• Install Wireshark
• Start a Wireshark Capture
• Stop a Wireshark Capture
• Capture Network Traffic
• Filter Displayed Traffic
• Filter Captured Traffic

Link Layer

• Capture and Analyze Ethernet Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Traffic

Internet Layer IPv4

• Capture and Analyze Local IPv4 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Remote IPv4 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Fragmented IPv4 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze IPv4 Multicast Traffic

Internet Layer IPv6

• Capture and Analyze Local IPv6 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Remote IPv6 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze IPv6 Multicast Traffic
• Capture and Analyze IPv6 Teredo Traffic
• Capture and Analyze IPv6 6to4 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze IPv6 6in4 Traffic

Internet Layer ICMP

• Capture and Analyze ICMP Echo Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMP Time Exceeded Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMP Tracert/Traceroute Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMPv6 Echo Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMPv6 Time Exceeded Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMPv6 Tracert/Traceroute Traffic
• Capture and Analyze ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) Traffic

Transport Layer

• Capture and Analyze User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Traffic

Application Layer

• Capture and Analyze Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze DHCPv6 Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Domain Name System (DNS) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) Traffic
• Capture and Analyze Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Traffic

See Also

• HowToGeek: 5 Killer Tricks to Get the Most out of Wireshark
• Infosec Institute: Decrypting SSL/TLS Traffic with Wireshark