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Networking Essentials / Seeing the network

Lesson 24 of 30

Wireshark

Wireshark captures packets so you can see exactly what's on the wire. Use it on your own network to learn how protocols really look.

Key points

  • Filter with http, dns, tcp.port == 443
  • Follow TCP stream rebuilds a conversation
  • Only capture networks you're allowed to
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