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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 way to go. […]
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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, so we stayed
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We have previously published two articles on Google’s QUIC protocol (note: Google originally called this protocol “QUIC” as you can tell by the original logo, but now that original version is referred to as gQUIC, whereas the IETF has chosen to call the newer version they are working on as “QUIC” – confusing – yes
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Since we published the Linux Networking Commands article in October 2017, I have had several comments that I should have included the “My Trace Route” command. Ofcourse, readers were correct, but I felt that this tool deserved its own article. Some of you, depending on what version of Linux you use may not have even
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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 and it takes
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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! You can dive
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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. It is an
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As explained in our prior article on QUIC, you may be seeing a lot of QUIC traffic in your packet captures. Assuming you have read that article, and understand that all QUIC traffic is encrypted, you know the only way was to see some of the details is using Chrome itself. Today it means using
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The following is a must have reference for Linux systems networking operations. We will be using the two basic commands: ‘ifconfig’, ‘iwconfig’, and ‘ip’. If you are the rtoot or administrator you should have no issues using the commands as shown. If you do not, you may want to use ‘sudo’ in front of the
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