This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
WIndows 10 has several interesting WLAN/Wi-Fi commands you can run from the Windows 10 command or Powershell. One of them is the WLAN Report. It takes two steps to view this information. Step 1. Run Windows CMD as Administrator. Then enter the command: netsh wlan show wlanreport Here is an example output: Note that the […]
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I saw an interesting question recently that I thought I would offer up an answer to: In Windows ‘netsh wlan show interfaces’, what does the signal % mean? Here is an example (I have two wireless interfaces on my system – Wi-Fi is the built in wireless adapter, and Wi-Fi4 is an external adapter –
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Using Wireshark in Microsoft Windows reveals some quirks that naturally leave you scratching your head as to what is going on. For example, when I launch Wireshark on my Windows 10 system I see a bunch of different interfaces. Some make sense (Wi-Fi, Ethernet 2) but others….: What are all the Local Area Connections? What
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A common question regarding Wireshark packet analysis is “Can I find a text string in a packet capture?” 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 The answer is that it depends on where the text string is
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Example IPv6 Fragmentation Attack
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Example IPv6 SYN Flood Attack
Example IPv6 SYN Flood Attack Read More »
I was asked in a recent WLAN class whether you can adjust the power level in a Wi-Fi radio. The answer is yes (if you have the right operating system), and here is how. For this demonstration, I am using Kali Linux but this should work on any Linux. Comment below if you can confirm
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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 Just introduced this week is a terminal version of tshark that looks like the Wireshark GUI call termshark. Why? Let’s say you run either Virtual Machines or Servers without a
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We started to notice QUIC back in 2017. For an overview of QUIC you can see my article here: https://www.cellstream.com/2018/03/07/is-there-a-lot-of-quic-in-your-packet-captures/ How do you know if a given web site uses QUIC/gQUIC? It is a great question, and can be easily answered if you are using Google Chrome (which, by now you should be!). First, you
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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 If you are like me, you count on the Internet to help with how to’s especially when using Linux. That said, sometimes the information can be contradicting or confusing. This
3 Ways to put your Wi-Fi Interface in Monitor Mode in Linux Read More »
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 In our article on putting your WLAN Wi-Fi interface into Monitor Mode so you can sniff Wi-Fi packets and troubleshoot WLAN’s, we said that if you are running
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Check out these additional IPv6 Resources: Our IPv6 overview course at Udemy Our IPv6 Custom Profiles for Wireshark Our IPv6 classes at the Online School A major change in the behavior of IP networks between IPv4 and IPv6 is that in IPv6 networks, all hosts are required to support something called Path MTU (PMTU) discovery.
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I received a question on how to create a delay to a subnet using GNS3. Below is my answer:
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I recently watched a YouTube video where one of the GNS3 creators was talking about GNS3 and how it runs. This convinced me to consider moving my GNS3 development work to the Linux world. I had done this years ago for the hands on training classes but my own development environment has been Windows based.
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One way to examine your network configuration in Linux is to use the “ip” command. I have attached a cheat sheet from Red Hat. By itself, it will show its options: So much going on here, and I find the help and man pages to be light on clarity and examples. So let’s explore.
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