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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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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Yesterday I wanted to mess around with IPv6 Temporary addresses on my computer. Let me start with an overview of IPv6 Temporary addresses. IPv6 Temporary Addresses are a feature designed to enhance privacy for devices using the IPv6 protocol. In the IPv6 addressing scheme, devices typically have both a permanent (static) address and one or
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As always seems to be the case, there are several ways to find the MAC (Media Access Control) address of your interfaces in Windows. I am going to try to make this easy and considerate of different versions of Windows out there. To find the Windows MAC address from Command Line, use the following steps:
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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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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 Whenever your web browser connects to a web server using HTTPS, a secure connection is established, keys are exchanged, and the traffic is encrypted. We won’t spend any time in
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Microsoft has added a packet sniffing/packet capture tool in the latest Windows 10 update. We have previously discussed using the ‘netsh’ command to do packet capture in Windows (see my article here). The pktmon tool is new. What does this mean? Is it better than netsh? Does it integrate with Wireshark? Well, it means 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 There are several other articles that we have written on various Windows 10 WLAN/Wi-Fi commands that you can execute to perform various important wireless information gathering and management. We will
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If you attend our WLAN Operations course, one of the things we discuss is Active Scanning. Your system uses your saved Wi-Fi networks to actively scan for those networks (probing). There are potential security risks in this, especially with free networks. Most students conclude they should not remember networks in this way. The burning question
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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 As many of my clients and students know, I have always been astonished at how hard it is to capture the Wi-Fi traffic in Windows. This article will explain the
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A frequent visitor here will know that we have many articles discussing the netsh command line shell/scripting tool in Windows. The tool was originally introduced in Win2K. If you aren’t a regular – just click on ‘netsh’ in the tag cloud to see them all. This article discusses how you can use the ‘netsh trace’
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On April 18th 2018 Microsoft published (for the first time ever?) a complete command line reference. It is a 248 page PDF document. You can download it here. Here is my quick list of commands you can run from the Windows Command Line: (START> RUN> CMD) ADDUSERS Add or list users to/from a CSV file
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What is Netsh? Netsh is a Microsoft Windows command-line shell/scripting utility originally introduced in Windows 2000 that allows you to, either locally or remotely, display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. Netsh also provides a scripting feature that allows you to run a group of commands in batch mode
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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 Here are some great Windows command line entries you can make to examine and configure IPv6 (assuming your version of Windows does so). We will discuss use of the “netsh”
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