Now let's actually understand what Wireshark is.
Wireshark is a packet sniffer and analysis tool.
It allows us to capture packets or network traffic for detailed analysis.
It is extensively used for troubleshooting network problems and analyzing packets in detail.
You can see the captured packets for offline analysis and examine each individual packet thoroughly.
Wireshark essentially keeps track of network activities by capturing traffic that enters or leaves your
network.
There are many tools available for capturing network traffic, but what makes Wireshark the best is
its ability to filter traffic and ease of use.
Wireshark has a powerful packet filtering engine that makes it extremely easy to navigate and analyze
the captured packets.
Wireshark is a free and open source tool.
It runs on all major operating systems, including Mac OS, windows, and Linux.
Now let's discuss some of the use cases of Wireshark, where it is used in the real world.
Network security engineers use Wireshark to analyze security issues and identify suspicious traffic.
If there is some suspicious traffic on the network or if someone is attacking the network, then Wireshark
can easily help to identify attacks or malicious traffic on the network.
Wireshark is extensively used by network administrators to troubleshoot the network issues.
System and network administrators use Wireshark to check whether the network is down or servers are
communicating with each other properly.
It is used for monitoring traffic on the local network.
Wireshark also helps to detect and troubleshoot the latency issues.
Developers working on creating or modifying network protocols use Wireshark extensively to test, validate,
and debug their implementations.
Wireshark can be used for analyzing all types of network traffic.
I just mentioned the main usage.
Its use cases are limitless.
Wireshark is a must know tool for ethical hackers, network engineers, and cybersecurity professionals.