Basics of network protocol analyzer Wireshark On Linux | Linux Today

Basics of network protocol analyzer Wireshark On Linux

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Nick Congleton
Feb 20, 2017

Wireshark is just one of the valuable tools provided by Kali Linux. Like the others, it can be used for either positive or negative purposes. Of course, this guide will cover monitoring your own network traffic to detect any potentially unwanted activity. Wireshark is incredibly powerful, and it can appear daunting at first, but it serves the single purpose of monitoring network traffic, and all of those many options that it makes available only serve to enhance it’s monitoring ability.

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