PRAISE FOR PRACTICAL PACKET ANALYSIS

“A wealth of information. Smart, yet very readable, and honestly made me excited to read about packet analysis.”

—TECHREPUBLIC

“I’d recommend this book to junior network analysts, software developers, and the newly minted CSE/CISSP/etc.—folks that just need to roll up their sleeves and get started troubleshooting network (and security) problems.”

—GUNTER OLLMANN, FORMER CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER OF IOACTIVE

“The next time I investigate a slow network, I’ll turn to Practical Packet Analysis. And that’s perhaps the best praise I can offer on any technical book.”

—MICHAEL W. LUCAS, AUTHOR OF ABSOLUTE FREEBSD AND NETWORK FLOW ANALYSIS

“An essential book if you are responsible for network administration on any level.”

—LINUX PRO MAGAZINE

“A wonderful, simple-to-use, and well-laid-out guide.”

—ARSGEEK.COM

“If you need to get the basics of packet analysis down pat, this is a very good place to start.”

—STATEOFSECURITY.COM

“Very informative and held up to the key word in its title, practical. It does a great job of giving readers what they need to know to do packet analysis and then jumps right in with vivid real-life examples of what to do with Wireshark.”

—LINUXSECURITY.COM

“Are there unknown hosts chatting away with each other? Is my machine talking to strangers? You need a packet sniffer to really find the answers to these questions. Wireshark is one of the best tools to do this job, and this book is one of the best ways to learn about that tool.”

—FREE SOFTWARE MAGAZINE

“Perfect for the beginner to intermediate.”

—DAEMON NEWS