Author name: Andrew Walding

My short bio can be viewed here: https://www.evernote.com/l/AKglxPOzlV9E7LHKvPsGzgs-SY3McII8E24

tshark Use in Wireless Networking

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 As those who have studied our Wireless Profile (available from the Profile Repository) know, there are a number of great display filters used to hunt down issues on Wireless LAN’s. 

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Perhaps a top 15 Wireshark Capture Filter List

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     Perhaps…. Of course you can edit these with appropriate addresses and numbers. The ones used are just examples.  Unlike Wireshark’s Display Filter syntax, Capture filters use Berkley Packet

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What is the ‘area range’ command in OSPF?

Check out these additional Routing Resources: Our IP Routing course at Udemy Our Custom Profiles for Wireshark Classes at the Online School This is commonly asked question from our routing courses and routing discussions in other courses.  Let’s explain this command in this article. To start, you have to know that OSPF supports different areas. 

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What is the “network” Command in OSPF and BGP?

Check out these additional Routing Resources: Our IP Routing course at Udemy Our Custom Profiles for Wireshark Classes at the Online School In a recent course on IPv6, one of my students asked what the “network” command did as we were beginning to study the routing commands used in Cisco IOS when configuring OSPF. In

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Deleting Remembered Wi-Fi Networks in Windows, MacOS, and Linux (Debian)

If you attend our WLAN Operations course, one of the things we discuss is Active Scanning.  Your system uses your saved Wi-Fi networks to actively scan for those networks (probing).  There are potential security risks in this, especially with free networks.  Most students conclude they should not remember networks in this way.  The burning question

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Complaint: Why Don’t You Allow Employees to use Wireshark?

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  Let me begin with a little background.  At CellStream, and the Online School of Network Sciences, we have taught hundreds of Wireshark classes for general networking, voice networking, data center

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Real-life Wireless Wireshark Troubleshooting Example

Sometimes troubleshooting in Wireshark is easy-ish, you find a misbehaving protocol behavior or pattern or even a bad packet, sometimes it is tricky and takes a while to find something, and sometimes it is as clear as mud.  Check out these great references as well:   Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on

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If I want to get into Networking, what should I learn?

I was recently (this was 2017) asked the question “If I want to get into Networking, what should I learn?” If you want to see the 2025 answer – click here. A great question because Telecommunications or Data Networking is really not a degree program at most universities, at least not at the undergraduate level.

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