This section contains general information, tips and tricks, light reading, entertainment and other general fodder. Enjoy!
We thought it would be useful to our networking colleagues to provide an overview of the OpenFlow protocol. Let’s begin with a broad definition of what OpenFlow is. OpenFlow is a communications protocol that uses network-centric, network-aware intelligence in it’s communication design. OpenFlow works on Software Defined Network (SDN) controllers placed in the […]
For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting Wi-Fi Wireless networks, we would like to offer a great default profile for WiFi. Let’s make no bones about this capturing and analyzing Wi-Fi traffic is not as easy (you have to be in Monitor Mode) as just selecting this profile and clicking capture.
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Most users of Wireshark and T-Shark are unaware that neither of these programs alone actually captures packets! Both programs use a third program that is distributed with Wireshark and was installed on your (Linux, MAC or Windows) system called ‘dumpcap’ to do the packet capturing. Since dumpcap is a program itself, you can
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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 For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv6, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv6. Consider for a moment what would be important
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting BGP, we would like to offer a great default profile for basic BGP. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in basic BGP: Being able to filter BGP packets quickly, as well as finding potentially bogus BGP Colorizing BGP message
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Most network engineers and technicians are quickly discovering that with “everything over IP” we are required to understand exactly what this means. For a lot of the standard, traditional data communications between clients and servers this means transport over TCP. Furthermore, it requires the ability to troubleshoot TCP. To troubleshoot TCP you have
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting IPv4, we would like to offer a great default profile for IPv4. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities. Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses. Let’s
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are needing to analyze DNS Queries and Responses, we have the profile for you. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities. Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses. Let’s
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For those of you who love Wireshark and are needing to analyze ARP packets, we have the profile for you. Profiles are one of the most important Wireshark capabilities. Setting up and using different profiles for different environments, protocols, and tasks is a crucial skill that we teach in our Wireshark courses. Let’s say you
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In this article I wanted to explain some of the basics of a tool called ‘netcat’. Similar to my article of nmap, we will start simple and add some details as we go. What is Netcat? From the netcat web site: Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using
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If you routinely have to change or modify your Windows configuration, especially for things like printers and networks, you find yourself navigating the Control Panel maze of choices to get to the place where this can be done. This can become tedious and time consuming. What if you had a place where all these types
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In my prior article on getting started with nmap, I showed you how to get started with this superb network scanner. In that article we did basic scans to locate what hosts were on a given network and display what services were running on those hosts. In this article I am going to dig a
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In the prior articles (Getting Started with nmap and Deeper Scanning with nmap), we showed you how to get started, and how to dive deeper with this superb network scanner. Let’s go even deeper! One of the cool things nmap has is the ability to create scripts. Now doing this from scratch would be
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Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing that has been around since 1997. Surveillance and network scanning is often one of the first steps in Penetration Testing or Security Validation. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory,
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Welcome to my little nmap cheat sheet! To learn more about nmap – check out my articles: Getting Started with nmap and Deeper Scanning with nmap and Even Deeper Scanning with nmap and Advanced nmap Scripting Engine. There was no intent here to recreate the full nmap capabilities, that would have been a waste of your and
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