Posts Tagged With ‘wireshark’
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Happy Birthday, Wireshark!
15 years ago, Wireshark was “born”, so happy birthday! Take a look at the official Wireshark Blog for Gerald’s post. And watch Gerald’s keynote he did at Sharkfest 2013. And, of course, the funny video about how it was all Karen’s idea – which Gerald, at the time it was shown at Sharkfest, had no […]
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Sharkfest 2013 Recap
Yesterday I returned from the annual Wireshark conference, Sharkfest 2013, and once again it has been a great conference. I had four talks (well, actually I had three, but one was scheduled to run twice and it looks like I never do a talk the same way), and one of them I did together with […]
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Spurious Retransmissions
Update: since Wireshark version 1.12 is out, lots of people look for the meaning of “tcp spurious retransmission” info message, so I changed the post a little to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. Today, while doing a lot of testing of my trace handling code as well as in preparation for […]
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Name Resolution Denial of Service
Today I was using a combination of dumpcap and Wireshark to run a network forensics investigation against a server that may have been compromised. A couple of malicious files had been reported by the virus scanner, so I had to take a closer look at what it was doing in the network. Actually, dumpcap was […]
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The notorious Wireshark “Out of Memory” problem
It is one of the most common question on the Wireshark Q&A site: “I have xyz gigabyte of memory, but still Wireshark crashes when I try to capture data”, with xyz being a more or less impressive (or even ridiculous) amount of memory. This is how a typical crash looks like (your mileage may vary):
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Wireshark GeoIP resolution setup
One of the many features Wireshark provides is the name resolution for various protocol layers, and I have to admit that – at least for me – some of them are really helpful while others (well, one of them, to be more specific) annoy the hell out of me. I really like MAC layer resolution, […]
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Capturing damaged frames
One of the questions that I often got in my network analysis classes was how to capture damaged frames. It is an obvious thing to ask, since frames with bad checksums will most certainly have to be retransmitted or are at least a nice indicator that something went wrong while transporting the frame.
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Learning something new every day…
Today, a question was posted on ask.wireshark.org, about Wireshark becoming more than just a packet analyzer since it could already read MP3, JPG and other file formats.
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