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Now let's actually understand what Wireshark is.

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Wireshark is a packet sniffer and analysis tool.

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It allows us to capture packets or network traffic for detailed analysis.

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It is extensively used for troubleshooting network problems and analyzing packets in detail.

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You can see the captured packets for offline analysis and examine each individual packet thoroughly.

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Wireshark essentially keeps track of network activities by capturing traffic that enters or leaves your

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network.

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There are many tools available for capturing network traffic, but what makes Wireshark the best is

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its ability to filter traffic and ease of use.

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Wireshark has a powerful packet filtering engine that makes it extremely easy to navigate and analyze

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the captured packets.

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Wireshark is a free and open source tool.

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It runs on all major operating systems, including Mac OS, windows, and Linux.

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Now let's discuss some of the use cases of Wireshark, where it is used in the real world.

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Network security engineers use Wireshark to analyze security issues and identify suspicious traffic.

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If there is some suspicious traffic on the network or if someone is attacking the network, then Wireshark

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can easily help to identify attacks or malicious traffic on the network.

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Wireshark is extensively used by network administrators to troubleshoot the network issues.

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System and network administrators use Wireshark to check whether the network is down or servers are

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communicating with each other properly.

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It is used for monitoring traffic on the local network.

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Wireshark also helps to detect and troubleshoot the latency issues.

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Developers working on creating or modifying network protocols use Wireshark extensively to test, validate,

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and debug their implementations.

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Wireshark can be used for analyzing all types of network traffic.

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I just mentioned the main usage.

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Its use cases are limitless.

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Wireshark is a must know tool for ethical hackers, network engineers, and cybersecurity professionals.