Wireshark Packet Analysis Boot Camp

5 days - WPABC 

 

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Course Content

Participants will acquire knowledge and experience about detailed analysis and troubleshooting of typical network protocols and applications with specific focus on switched Ethernet, TCP/IP networks and TCP/IP based applications.

Who Should Attend

Network administrators, network managers and all technical staff who are responsible for planning, implementing and ensuring high performance operation of their data networks.

Prerequisites


  • Basic understanding of Network Fundamentals and TCP/IP operation, recommended course: "Networking & TCP/IP Fundamentals (NWF)"
  • Working experience using Wireshark and basic knowledge in analysis and troubleshooting methodology; recommended course: "Packet Analysis with Ethereal/Wireshark Analyzer (PAE)"


Skills


  • Switched Ethernet analysis: Duplex & Speed Issues; 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 and troubleshooting 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; SMB; DNS; SSL
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