Handouts
Links
- Wireshark. Download the software for free, read the manual, use example packet captures.
- tcpdump. tcpdump (and libpcap, the packet capture library used by tcpdump) documentation. Normally tcpdump comes already install in Linux distributions or you install using your distributions package manager (e.g. apt-get, yum).
Videos
- Capturing Wireless LAN Packets on Ubuntu with tcpdump and Kismet. Covers a special case of packet capture, capturing other peoples wireless LAN packets. Generally this requires specific wireless LAN hardware and drivers, which are common in Linux, BSD and OSX, but not supported in Windows. I provide instructions, with accompanying screencast, of capturing in Ubuntu.