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Here is our second attempt at answering the question – we will call it Option 2. You can find the first article here. This question comes up all the time, and the answers can be quite varied. Seems simple enough at first glance, right? But the problem is that things are not simple, especially in […]
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I have hesitated to write this article for – well – about 15 years! Why? Because I love Wireshark!! That said, I was asked this question in a recent class. I asked back, why? The individual said they were just curious and perhaps something had come out that was better or next generation. Seemed reasonable,
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If you use Windows and you are a Networking person technical or non-technical, you will find our toolkit to put all the useful Windows capabilities at your fingertips in a simple menu driven batch file. Before we start, you can download and install this toolkit here (instructions for installing are provided on that page). Here
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Well folks, I have decided to make this toolkit available to all. Just download it here. The Linux bash version can be downloaded here. Yes, Windows offers several built-in tools and utilities that can help with networking tasks and commands. Here’s an overview of some of the most useful tools: The problem is these are
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How does my traffic to a site on the Internet get there? What path did it follow? These are great questions, and I will attempt to answer them in this article. When you’re on the Internet, information or requests sent from your computer don’t reach the destination computer in a single jump – or hop
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How to perform reconnaissance & scanning the WLAN/Wi-Fi Network
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One of the latest developments in compute and storage has been the NVM (Non-Volatile Memory) Express (aka NVMe) that has revolutionized SSD use and speed. NVM Express (NVMe) is also known as Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) – it is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer’s non-volatile storage media usually
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Introduced in version 3.6 and later is a new Wireshark expert analysis process called TCP Completeness. At first this was quite confusing, but once you get to know what is going on, you come to understand that you can use this new feature to find certain types of TCP issues. We included this is our
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Who is on my network? Great question. Better yet: Who is on my customer’s network? That would be looking at the issue from a service provider’s perspective. This article attempts to answer that question with tips and tricks and tools that will help you, whether you are the owner of a network or a service provider.
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When you first start using Wireshark you will find that the great folks at Wireshark provide us with a “Default” profile. This is where we all started. We will call this our Zero starting point. Here is what it looks like: That default, whilst a great starting point leaves much to be desired as your
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If you have been to one of my Wireshark or Wi-Fi classes then you know I often criticize Microsoft Windows for some of its – well – inexplicable approaches to usage and security. Here is yet another example. Windows stores several important pieces of information in Wi-Fi profiles to facilitate automatic connections to known networks
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Scenario Let’s say you have a DHCP server running on a Cisco Switch that is behaving strangely and you want to examine the traffic over a couple of hours while not creating a gigantic unmanageable capture file. A note here: I am doing this on a Cisco switch, but most all vendor switches support this
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In this article, I wanted to provide a guide to using ping – ICMP Echo – to troubleshoot your network. Most people use ping on their platform to test if they can reach a given destination. Just open up a terminal (Linux or MAC OSx) or command line (Windows: Start> Run> cmd) and enter the
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In a recent class I was asked for some details on BGP Autonomous System (AS or ASN) Numbers. I thought I would document and provide a more complete answer here for others to learn from as well. What is the AS Number? Let’s begin with a definition. An Autonomous System Number (AS number or simply
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In this article I want to visit a “not used enough” Linux tool called logger. As with managing any system, you want to accurately annotate historical events and adding entries into the system log file is a great way to accomplish this. You can view the system log file with this command: awalding@aw-vb:~$ cat /var/log/syslog
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