Packet Analysis Power Workshop (PAPW)
Who should attend
Network administrators, network managers and all technical staff who are responsible for planning, implementing, and ensuring high performance operation of their data networks.
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
Delegates will receive a comprehensive introduction into the features, functions and the usage of the Wireshark Analyser and will learn methods and techniques about monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of their networks from the packet level.
Course Content
Features, functions and basic operation of Ethereal/Wireshark Analyser
- Introduction and operation of Wireshark
- Live Capture and Live Capture settings
- Display options and basic interpretation
- Working with Display Filters and Capture Filters
- File Input and Output
Advanced features of Wireshark Analyser
- Preferences and user profiles
- Name resolution
- Packet Reassembly
- Expert Information
- Packet colorisation
Methodology and techniques of network analysis and troubleshooting
- What is packet analysis?
- Steps and techniques for analysing traffic
- Analysing Switched Ethernet - Tapping into the network
- Capturing wireless network traffic
- Measuring network delay and response time
- Measuring network throughput and overhead
Statistics and Baselining
- Terms and Overview
- Wireshark Statistics
- Application Profiles
Analysing networks and applications
- Fault isolation
- Typical network related problems
- Application types and typical application related problems
Switched Ethernet analysis
- Duplex & Speed Issues
- Spanning Tree operation and Spanning Tree analysis
- Analyzing VLANs, VLAN-Tagging
TCP/IP analysis of the network layer
- IP addressing
- Typical IP scenarios
- IP options
- ICMP, ARP and DHCP
TCP/IP analysis of the transport layer
- TCP functions
- Session Setup, Data Transfer and Session Teardown
- Window Mechanism and Window optimization
- TCP options (SACK, Window Scaling) and TCP timers
- UDP functions
Analysing and troubleshooting TCP/IP with Wireshark
- Wireshark preferences for advanced TCP/IP analysis
- Typical TCP/IP related problems
- Wireshark Expert Info messages and their meanings
TCP/IP applications
- HTTP
- FTP
- SMB
- DNS
- SSL
Duration: 5 days
Prices (excl. VAT):
- Switzerland: Fr. 3,730.-
- Germany: 3,690.- €
Click on the location to go directly to the booking pageSchedule
Europe
Switzerland
Germany
Belgium
Denmark
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
United Kingdom
26/03/2012 - 30/03/2012
London, City
02/07/2012 - 06/07/2012
London, City
12/11/2012 - 16/11/2012
London, City
North America
United States
16/04/2012 - 20/04/2012
Herndon/Reston, VA
11/06/2012 - 15/06/2012
Herndon/Reston, VA
30/07/2012 - 03/08/2012
Sunnyvale/San Jose, CA
10/09/2012 - 14/09/2012
Herndon/Reston, VA
22/10/2012 - 26/10/2012
Sunnyvale/San Jose, CA
Fast Lane will carry out all guaranteed training regardless of the number of attendees, exempt from force majeure or other unexpected events, like e.g. accidents or illness of the trainer, which prevent the course from being conducted.
This is a FLEX course, which is delivered both virtually and in the classroom.