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Course Outline

  • Introduction to network troubleshooting
  • Understanding network troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting tools
  • Troubleshooting methodologies
  • Introduction to Wireshark
  • How Wireshark Works
  • Capturing Packets,
  • Understanding capture and display filters
  • Configuring Global Preferences
  • Navigation and Colorization Techniques
  • Using Time Values and Summaries
  • Examining Basic Trace File Statistics
  • Save, Export and Print
  • Capture and Display Filters
  • Capture filters – fundamentals and filter language
  • Display filters – fundamentals and filter language
  • Useful filters
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Using Time Values and Summaries
  • Using the default time column setting and precision
  • Measuring time between packets
  • Setting a time reference and viewing capture times
  • Troubleshooting timing problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Using Statistics Tools
  • Creating I/O graphs
  • Creating TCP Time-Sequence graphs
  • Analyzing flow graphs
  • Evaluating service response times
  • Creating Round-Trip-Time graphs
  • Analyzing TCP/IP flows
  • Analyzing application flows
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • The Expert System Basics
  • Normal and abnormal Network Communications
  • Causes of Performance Problems
  • Packet Losses, Extended Acknowledgements and Retransmissions
  • Lab and case studies
  • Bandwidth Issues
  • Bandwidth measurement
  • User/flow throughput calculations
  • Applications throughput calculations
  • Bandwidth and throughput problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Latency Issues
  • Primary points in calculating latency
  • Plotting high latency times
  • Free latency calculators
  • Using the frame.time_delta filter
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Packet Loss and Retransmissions
  • Packet loss and recovery - UDP and TCP
  • Previous segment lost and Out-of-Order Segments events
  • Duplicate ACKs and Fast Retransmissions
  • TCP Retransmissions
  • Zero window, Window changes and other window problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies

Requirements

Participants are expected to have foundational knowledge of networking and the TCP/IP protocol stack. Attendees must bring their own laptops equipped with Wireshark software, which can be downloaded free of charge from the official website at www.wireshark.org.

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