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Important Updates to Wireshark for Voice and VoIP

Hi everyone!  Happy Thanksgiving 2021.  Just released – Wireshark 3.6.0!!!  Why is this important to me, you, and everyone who troubleshoots Voice traffic using Wireshark?  Well, there are many changes to the voice related functionality in Wireshark in this (actually as part of the 3.5.0) release.  Of course, more than VoIP was updated in these …

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Wireshark 3.5 Development Release adds significant voice upgrades

Hi Everyone! If you are like me, you use Wireshark every day.  For me that means troubleshooting many different network situations, including Voice traffic – VoIP.  Wireshark announced some significant changes coming to the Voice capabilities set within Wireshark, and I hope you are like me – extremely excited to see these.  If you want …

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What does the BGP Next-Hop-Self Command Actually do?

I got this question the other day: “What does the BGP Next-Hop-Self command actually do?” It is a great question that I tried to answer in a brief description without success, and actually repeated my answer several times.  It was clear to me that my answer was not being understood in terms of a process …

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Seven Awesome Linux Terminal Utilities for Everyone

If you are a Linux user, you know how important the Terminal is to your compute world.  Here are Seven Awesome Linux Terminal Utilities for Everyone. Now there are a bunch of different Terminals in Linux, this article is not about that, but I like Tilix the best: sudo apt install tilix Instead, this article …

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Nested Display Filter Buttons feature in Wireshark

In Wireshark 3.4.0 stable release and later, you are going to find a display button feature that we have already leveraged to change all our profiles.  We now have the ability to nest display filter buttons, and I absolutely love this feature. One of the cool things about being able to customize Wireshark is to …

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Getting started with iPerf – an illustrated step by step procedure

In this article we will get you started with the iPerf tool.  We will be using it in a Linux environment, but know that it is available for all systems at http://iperf.fr. iPerf is used to test performance, throughput, packet loss, and jitter on TCP/IP networks. iPerf defaults to testing TCP – port number 5002. iPerf …

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How to Decrypt HTTPS on Windows in 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 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 …

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