Saturday, November 8, 2008

Wireshark tutorial: How to sniff network traffic. By Mike Chapple

Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is one of the most powerful tools in a network security analyst's toolkit. As a network packet analyzer, Wireshark can peer inside the network and examine the details of traffic at a variety of levels, ranging from connection-level information to the bits comprising a single packet. This flexibility and depth of inspection allows the valuable tool to analyze security events and troubleshoot network security device issues. It's also priced right: it's free!

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