Using Ethereal - Chris Sanders Presents Packet School 101

Chris Sanders - Packet School 101 - Part 1

"Over the course of the next few weeks I am going to be putting out a series on network traffic analysis. This is one of the most important skills any network administrator can have and is absolutely crucial to solving a variety of network related problems.

We won’t get into any actual packet analysis in the introductory article We will, however, go ahead and make sure we have the appropriate software to proceed, along with a brief understanding of how it works and how to use it.

Getting Equipped
The software we will be using for this series is the ever popular Ethereal network sniffing application. ..."

This looks like it might be interesting...

He’s currently up to Part 4 of the series...

(via Darrell Norton’s Blog [MVP] - Guide to using Ethereal)

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