Advanced Packet Analysis with Wireshark Analyzer (APAW) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Switched Ethernet Analysis
  • Ethernet Analysis
  • VLANs and VLAN tagging
TCP/IP analysis of the network layer
  • IP Addressing
  • Typical IP network problems
  • 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 timer
  • TCP graphs
  • UDP functions
Analysis of TCP/IP with Wireshark
  • Wireshark settings for advanced TCP/IP analysis
  • Typical problems with TCP/IP
  • Wireshark Expert info messages and their meaning
TCP/IP applications
  • HTTP
  • FTP
  • DNS
  • TLS