If you use Windows and you are a Networking person technical or non-technical, you will find our toolkit to put all the useful Windows capabilities at your fingertips in a simple menu driven batch file. Before we start, you can download and install this toolkit here (instructions for installing are provided on that page). Here […]
Usage Instructions for Our Windows Networking Toolkit Read More »
Our Windows Networking Toolkit is here. Here are the step-by-step installation instructions. First, download the ZIP file by clicking on the download button on this page. Your system should put this in your Downloads directory, unless you specified some other location. Next, open your file explorer and navigate to the downloads directory. Right click on
Windows Networking Toolkit Read More »
Well folks, I have decided to make this toolkit available to all. Just download it here. Yes, Windows offers several built-in tools and utilities that can help with networking tasks and commands. Here’s an overview of some of the most useful tools: The problem is these are in the command line interface, and if you
Our Windows Networking Toolkit Read More »
Yesterday I wanted to mess around with IPv6 Temporary addresses on my computer. Let me start with an overview of IPv6 Temporary addresses. IPv6 Temporary Addresses are a feature designed to enhance privacy for devices using the IPv6 protocol. In the IPv6 addressing scheme, devices typically have both a permanent (static) address and one or
Messing Around with IPv6 Temporary Addresses in Windows Read More »
As always seems to be the case, there are several ways to find the MAC (Media Access Control) address of your interfaces in Windows. I am going to try to make this easy and considerate of different versions of Windows out there. Using the Command Line To find the Windows MAC address from Command Line,
How do I find my PC’s MAC address on Windows? Read More »
If you have been to one of my Wireshark or Wi-Fi classes then you know I often criticize Microsoft Windows for some of its – well – inexplicable approaches to usage and security. Here is yet another example. Windows stores several important pieces of information in Wi-Fi profiles to facilitate automatic connections to known networks
Find and Display All Your Wi-Fi Passwords in Windows Read More »
Say it isn’t true! For the first time in the world (for me) I can put a Wi-Fi interface on a Windows 10 machine into Monitor mode!!!!! Monitor Mode in Windows At Last! I know, this is boring to a few of you because you have been capable of this. You are spoiled. You are
Monitor Mode in Windows At Last Read More »
Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Whenever your web browser connects to a web server using HTTPS, a secure connection is established, keys are exchanged, and the traffic is encrypted. We won’t spend any time in
How to Decrypt HTTPS on Windows in Wireshark Read More »
Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Apparently this is a common problem, where on Windows systems you do not see any interfaces: There are a couple of things to try: 1. If you are using the
How do I get Windows interfaces to show up in Wireshark? Read More »
Microsoft has added a packet sniffing/packet capture tool in the latest Windows 10 update. We have previously discussed using the ‘netsh’ command to do packet capture in Windows (see my article here). The pktmon tool is new. What does this mean? Is it better than netsh? Does it integrate with Wireshark? Well, it means you
Packet Capture in Windows using pktmon.exe Read More »
