For network admins and network security professionals, one of the most important tools to learn to use is Wireshark (formerly Ethereal), a free and open source network analyzer/packet sniffer software ...

The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this ...

Vendors would have you believe you need to spend thousands of dollars on protocol analyzer software to troubleshoot Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. After all, voice quality suffers if packets are late, ...

As everyone know that TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) are internet protocols which are used for communication through internet. The communication takes places ...

Ethernet networks can run remarkably well for long periods of time, lulling IT admins into a false sense of security. Unfortunately, disaster can strike at anytime, and to the under-equipped, network ...

In previous articles, I’ve used the Wireshark network protocol analyzer to create various illustrations. Given that this is one of the most powerful tools ever created for network troubleshooting, ...

As one of the best network monitoring tools in the world, Wireshark is used by hackers and sysadmins alike to capture and analyze network packets across a myriad of situations for troubleshooting and ...

Protocol analyzers are the indispensable tools that your IT staff deploys on the network when it’s not behaving properly. Sharp, experienced admins can examine the live network data or a saved ...

Do you love packet analysis as much as I do? If so, then you’ll probably remember the scene in the movie “The Matrix” where Neo is looking at the Matrix over one of the analysts’ shoulders and asks ...