Wireshark is packet sniffing software that is often used to monitor network traffic. Wireshark captures packets and allows you to examine their contents.

Wireshark is packet sniffing software that is often used to monitor network traffic. Wireshark captures packets and allows you to examine their contents.

It is not intrusion detection software as it does not monitor and alert to particular traffic. It is a good tool. You should remember it from your research into security tools.

Wireshark Lab

This first document is an introduction to Wireshark and a basic lab. Read the following Wireshark_Intro document and download Wireshark.
https://www-net.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/Wireshark_Intro_v7.0.pdf

Complete the lab and submit your findings here. The last page tells you what to hand in.

A sample GET and OK screenshot is attached. If you are unable to download or run Wireshark, you can use this to do the assignment.

Download Wireshark here

https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

User Guide

This is the user guide from Wireshark. Section 3 describes the Wireshark interface.
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/

Wireshark forum in Discussion Board

A Wireshark open forum is in the Discussion Board if you want to discuss, comment, or help each other with Wireshark.