Author name: Andrew Walding

Andrew Walding is the founder and president of CellStream, Inc., bringing more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications, broadband networking, Internet technologies, and technical education. His expertise spans network engineering, wireless and wireline communications, packet analysis, network operations, emerging technologies, and the design and delivery of advanced technical training programs. A Cisco-certified professional, IPv6-certified specialist, and CBRS Certified Professional Installer (CPI), he helps organizations and technology professionals understand, deploy, troubleshoot, and optimize modern communications networks.

Using Wireshark to capture between VirtualBox VM’s

Post Views: 8,316 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 A great question and problem. The fundamental answer is you can’t.  Why?  Depends on who you believe.  My conclusion is that Wireshark (really dumpcap) has to use

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Zenmap – the nmap GUI

Post Views: 13,934 In our previous articles on nmap ( Getting Started with nmap and Deeper Scanning with nmap and Even Deeper Scanning with nmap and Advanced nmap Scripting Engine) we ran everything from the command line interface of various Linux distributions.  When you install nmap, you also get something called ‘Zenmap’ which is the graphical user

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Advanced nmap – the nmap Scripting Engine (NSE)

Post Views: 13,776 In this article we continue our nmap series (just click on the nmap tag at the bottom of the article to see the other articles), this time we discuss an advanced nmap feature called the NSE: nmap Scripting Engine. This post get’s you started with nmap scripts. Once you get this, we

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Wi-Fi Network Monitoring & Manipulation in Parrot Linux

Post Views: 25,186 Check out these great references as well:  Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark  Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture  Our other Wi-Fi related articles Let’s talk about Wi-Fi Network Monitoring & Manipulation in Parrot Linux. If you are doing anything regarding security or penetration testing you know Linux is the only

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CSI-HO-028 – Hands-On Advanced L3 Routing with BGP and OSPF

Post Views: 22,419  Advanced OSPF, BGP, Multicast PIM, and VXLAN Configuration and Analysis 2-Day Instructor-Led Hands-On Lab ClassAvailable in either Web-Based Delivery or On-Site DeliveryMinimum 10 students – Maximum 16 students What Students are Saying About this Class: Course Description Modern networks increasingly depend on advanced Layer 3 technologies to provide scalable routing, resilient connectivity,

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GeoIP Add In for Wireshark 2.6 and Later

Post Views: 2,473 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 Teaching a Wireshark class with some cellular company employees, I was asked how to integrate the GeoIP IP Address resolution.  I had not done this for years,

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Testing/Baselining DNS Server Performance

Post Views: 2,599 As a follow on to our DNS In Depth article, we wanted to provide a reference to a great tool. One of the important impacts to how fast the Internet works for users is how fast the Domain Name Service responds to database requests.  For example, if you type www.cellstream.com into your URL

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Using Ansible for Network Automation

Post Views: 2,253 Ansible is an open-source automation tool primarily used for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. In network automation, Ansible enables IT teams to manage and configure network devices in a consistent, repeatable, and agentless manner. Ansible is a tool used to automate Server provisioning and network provisioning.  Ansible is completely free! 

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Is there a lot of QUIC in your Packet Captures?

Post Views: 2,262 Have you noticed a lot of QUIC protocol in your packet captures?  I certainly have, and we had better talk about what this is.  What is QUIC (now more recently called gQUIC)? QUIC is a new protocol created by the fine folks at Google.  It stands for Google Quick UDP Internet Connections. 

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