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Course Outline

  • Overview of network troubleshooting
  • Defining network troubleshooting
  • Essential troubleshooting tools
  • Methodologies for troubleshooting
  • Introduction to Wireshark
  • Understanding how Wireshark operates
  • 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: basics and filter language
  • Display filters: basics and filter language
  • Commonly used filters
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Working with time values and summaries
  • Using default time column settings and precision
  • Measuring time between packets
  • Setting time references and viewing capture times
  • Troubleshooting timing-related issues
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Leveraging 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
  • Fundamentals of the Expert System
  • Normal and abnormal network communications
  • Causes of performance problems
  • Packet losses, excessive ACKs, and retransmissions
  • Labs and case studies
  • Addressing bandwidth issues
  • Measuring bandwidth
  • Calculating user/flow throughput
  • Calculating application throughput
  • Identifying bandwidth and throughput problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Addressing latency issues
  • Key points in calculating latency
  • Plotting high latency periods
  • Utilizing free latency calculators
  • Using the frame.time_delta filter
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Handling packet loss and retransmissions
  • Packet loss and recovery for UDP and TCP
  • Events for previous segment loss 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

Participants should have basic networking knowledge and familiarity with the TCP/IP protocol stack. Attendees must bring laptops with Wireshark software installed (available for free download at www.wireshark.org).

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