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Course Outline

  • Introduction to network troubleshooting
  • Understanding network troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting tools
  • Troubleshooting methodologies
  • Introduction to Wireshark
  • 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
  • Capture and display filters
  • Capture filters – basics and filter language
  • Display filters – basics and filter language
  • Useful filters
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Utilizing time values and summaries
  • Using default time column settings and precision
  • Using 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, excessive ACKs, and retransmissions
  • Lab and case studies
  • Bandwidth issues
  • Bandwidth measurement
  • User/flow throughput calculations
  • Application 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 should possess basic networking knowledge and an understanding of the TCP/IP protocol stack. Attendees must bring laptops equipped with Wireshark software, which can be downloaded free of charge from www.wireshark.org.

 21 Hours

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