Advanced Packet Analysis with Wireshark Analyzer (APAW) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Switched Ethernet analysis

  • Spanning Tree operation and Spanning Tree analysis
  • Analyzing VLANs, VLAN-Tagging

TCP/IP analysis of the network layer

  • IP addressing
  • Typical IP scenarios
  • IP options
  • ICMP, ARP and DHCP

TCP/IP analysis of the transport layer

  • TCP functions
  • Session Setup, Data Transfer and Session Teardown
  • Window Mechanism and Window optimization
  • TCP options (SACK, Window Scaling) and TCP timers
  • UDP functions

Analyzing TCP/IP with Wireshark

  • Wireshark preferences for advanced TCP/IP analysis
  • Typical TCP/IP related problems
  • Wireshark Expert Info messages and their meanings

TCP/IP applications

  • HTTP
  • FTP
  • DNS
  • SSL