This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
For all my troubleshooting network friends, I have compiled a list below of the top troubleshooting tools that you need to have and know. #1 – Our Network Troubleshooting Toolkit for Windows or Linux You will find more details on this right here. A must have. Usage instructions are here. Most of the items below […]
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So often in Wireshark videos and classes we spend a lot of time on TCP behavior. But what I am about to discuss is hardly ever brought up. The answer to version is simple right? Version 4. OK, kind of right, but overlooking too much. The truth is that there are multiple “versions” of TCP,
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Retransmissions of frames in WLANs (Wireless Local Area Networks) can become problematic for several reasons, primarily due to the nature of the wireless medium. While retransmissions are a necessary part of ensuring data integrity in unreliable networks, they can cause inefficiencies and degrade network performance. I will get to the details below, but let’s start
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As most of my readers, students, and clients know, I absolutely love Wireshark. I deeply am infatuated with Wireshark’s Profiles, more properly called configuration profiles. So much so that many years ago now, I set up the first Wireshark Profiles Repository. 100’s of thousands of downloads have resulted, and I hope I have helped the
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It’s always tough to do these Top 10 posts. I mean, depending on your job, where you access the network, what it is you are trying to do, you may have some favorite tcpdump commands that I don’t show here. That said, lets take a look at some great tcpdump commands. By the way, you
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That’s right folks. I have been searching and searching. I actually gave up for a while as the only thing available was PCIe based adapters. Well that all changed with a search today and this showed up: Here is the link. This will go through my Amazon Associate link – if you buy it, we
A Wi-Fi 7 Tri-Band USB Adapter now available on Amazon Read More »
A CLEAR WORD OF CAUTION – ONLY USE THIS TOOL WHERE YOU HAVE PERMISSION. THIS ARTICLE IS OFFERRED FOR LEARNING PURPOSES ONLY. Hping3 is a network tool designed for packet crafting and analysis, similar to Scapy but with a more command-line-oriented interface. It is often used for testing and troubleshooting network infrastructure, performing security assessments,
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Windows Firewall allows you to control the traffic entering and leaving your system through various rules. You can create and configure firewall rules to permit or block specific network activities. Below are some examples of Windows Firewall rules, including inbound and outbound rules: Example 1: Allow Inbound Traffic on a Specific Port (e.g., HTTP –
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Configuring a firewall rule in Ubuntu typically involves using iptables or nftables. I have written a separate article on iptables here. What if we wanted to make life a little less involved. The answer is ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall), which is a user-friendly front-end for managing iptables firewall rules. Here’s how you can do it: Step
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iptables is a command-line utility in Linux that allows you to configure the rules of the packet filtering and NAT (Network Address Translation) framework, known as netfilter, within the Linux kernel. It is a key tool for managing network traffic and implementing a firewall on Linux systems. Here’s an overview of what iptables does and
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So many folks use Windows and they want to capture Wi-Fi traffic in Monitor Mode (aka RFMON) using their onboard Wi-Fi adapter, and, for those of us who have tried, we all know how problematic that is. The answer as discussed in my post here is to use an external adapter. Check out these great
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The whois command is a tool commonly used on various operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, to query databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. It can provide information such as the domain owner, contact information,
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Let’s say you wanted to view our site back in 2001. Could you do it? The answer is yes! That’s right, someone has been crawling the web called the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org). The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive,
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In our prior article on companion tools for Wireshark (link), we provided a list of tools that network analysts, operations, maintainers or just curious people should consider. All these were stand alone tools. What about Internet/Web Browser based sites that you may find useful? This thought raises certain issues, like this scenario: the network is
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Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer used by network professionals for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. Companion tools can enhance its functionality or help in related tasks. If you are looking for hard tools we have a list of what we carry in our “go bag” here. Here are some websites and tools that
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