Packet Analysis with Wireshark Analyzer (PAW) - Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Features, functions and basic operation of Wireshark Analyzer

• Introduction and operation of Wireshark
• Live Capture and Live Capture settings
• Display options and basic interpretation
• Working with Display Filters and Capture Filters
• File Input and Output

Advanced features of Wireshark Analyzer

• Preferences and user profiles
• Name resolution
• Reconstructing user data – Protocol reassembly
• Packet colorization

Methodology and techniques of network analysis

• What is packet analysis?
• Steps and techniques for analyzing traffic
• Analysing Switched Ethernet - Tapping into the network
• Capturing wireless network traffic
• Measuring network delay and response time
• Measuring network throughput and overhead

Statistics and Baselining

• Baselining of networks and applications
• Wireshark statistics
• Analysing networks and applications
• Typical network related problems
• Application types and typical application related problems
• "Is it the network or the application?" – Fault isolation
• Analysing and reconstructing voice traffic