Wireshark Certified Network Analyst

Description

Wireshark is a free network protocol analyser. This hands-on course provides a comprehensive tour of using Wireshark to troubleshoot networks. The course concentrates on the information needed in order to pass the WCNA exam. Students will gain the most from this course only if they already have a sound knowledge of the TCP/IP protocols.

What will you learn

WCNA training course details

Technical staff looking after networks.

TCP/IP Foundation for engineers

5 days

Network analysis, troubleshooting, network traffic
flows.
Hands on Download/install Wireshark.

Capturing packets, libpcap, winpcap, airpcap.
Dissectors and plugins. The menus. Right click.

Hands on Using Wireshark.

Wireshark and switches and routers. Remote
traffic capture.
Hands on Capturing packets.

Applying, identifiers, qualifiers, protocols,
addresses, byte values. File sets, ring buffers.

Hands on Capture filters.

Configuration folders. Global and personal
configurations. Capture preferences, name
resolution, protocol settings. Colouring traffic.
Profiles.
Hands on Customising Wireshark.

Packet time, timestamps, packet arrival times,
delays, traffic rates, packets sizes, overall bytes.

Hands on Measuring high latency.

Protocols and applications, conversations, packet
lengths, destinations, protocol usages, strams,
flows.
Hands on Wireshark statistics.

Applying, clearing, expressions, right click,
conversations, endpoints, protocols, combining
filters, specific bytes, regex filters.
Hands on
Display traffic.

Traffic reassembly, UDP and TCP conversations,
SSL.
Hands on Recreating streams.

Filtered, marked and ranges.
Hands on Export.

The expert system. DNS, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, ICMP,
UDP, TCP.
Hands on Analysing traffic.

Basic graphs, Advanced IO graphs. Round Trip
Time, throughput rates.
Hands on Graphs.

DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP.
Hands on Analysing
application traffic.

Signal strength and interference, monitor mode
and promiscuous mode. Data, management and
control frames.
Hands on WLAN traffic.

Call flows, Jitter, packet loss. RTP, SIP.
Hands on Playing back calls.

Baselining. High latency, arrival times, delta
times.
Hands on Identifying poor performance.

Host vs network forensics, unusual traffic
patterns, detecting scans and sweeps, suspect
traffic.
Hands on Signatures.

Tshark, capinfos, editcap, mergecap, text2pcap,
dumpcap.
Hands on Command tools.