Question

Hi, got a few questions about WireShark software.

1) What should one expect from learning software WireShark?
2) What one will be able to accomplish with this software?
3) What are the benefits in general?

Maybe give a few sentences definition if possible, it could be one paragraph.

Thanks

Answer 1

Expection from learning WireShark software :

(1)Learning Wireshark one could easily troubleshoot the network related problems.

(2)Wireshark helps for the network security engineers to find out the security related problems.

(3)Learning this software helps for the QA engineer to verify the network applications.

(4) Learning WireShark helps in debugging the protocol implementation.

Accomplishment with this software :

(1)Filtering the packets on many criteria can be accomplished.

(2)Searching for the packets on many criteria can also be accomplished with the help of Wireshark software.

(3)Coloring the packet display based on filter packets can also be accomplished.

(4)Capturing live data packets can also be accomplished from the WIreshark.

Benefits in general :

(1) Open files containing paclet data captured with TCP dump / WinDump, Wireshark and many other packet capture programs.

(2)Used to import packets from text files containing hex dumps of packet data.

(3)Used to display packets with detailed protocol information.

(4)IT also helps to export some or all packets in a number of capture file formats.