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Course Outline

  • Introduction to network troubleshooting
  • Defining network troubleshooting
  • Essential troubleshooting tools
  • Established troubleshooting methodologies
  • Overview of Wireshark
  • Understanding Wireshark's operation
  • Capturing packets,
  • Understanding capture and display filters
  • Configuring global preferences
  • Navigation and colorization techniques
  • Utilizing time values and summaries
  • Examining basic trace file statistics
  • Saving, exporting, and printing data
  • Capture and display filters
  • Capture filters: fundamentals and syntax
  • Display filters: fundamentals and syntax
  • Highly useful filters
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Utilizing time values and summaries
  • Adjusting the default time column settings and precision
  • Monitoring time intervals between packets
  • Setting time references and viewing capture timestamps
  • Diagnosing timing-related problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Leveraging statistics tools
  • Generating I/O graphs
  • Generating 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
  • Fundamentals of the Expert System
  • Normal versus abnormal network communications
  • Root causes of performance issues
  • Packet losses, excessive ACKs, and retransmissions
  • Lab and case studies
  • Bandwidth-related issues
  • Measuring bandwidth
  • Calculating user/flow throughput
  • Calculating application throughput
  • Addressing bandwidth and throughput problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Latency-related issues
  • Key factors in calculating latency
  • Identifying periods of high latency
  • Accessing free latency calculators
  • Using the frame.time_delta filter
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Packet loss and retransmissions
  • Packet loss and recovery mechanisms in UDP and TCP
  • Handling previously lost segments and out-of-order segments
  • Duplicate ACKs and fast retransmissions
  • TCP retransmissions
  • Zero window, window changes, and other window-related issues
  • Lab exercises and case studies

Requirements

Attendees must possess fundamental networking knowledge, including familiarity with the TCP/IP protocol stack. Participants are required to bring their own laptops pre-installed with Wireshark, which can be downloaded free of charge from www.wireshark.org.

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