Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook
Second Edition
Practical recipes to analyze and secure your network using Wireshark 2
Nagendra Kumar Nainar
Yogesh Ramdoss
Yoram Orzach
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 CookbookSecond Edition
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I would like to dedicate this book to my beloved friend, Suresh Kumar, and his late wife, Dharshana Suresh.
Nagendra Kumar Nainar
I would like to dedicate this book to my parents, Ramdoss and Bhavani, who have dedicated their life for my success.
Yogesh Ramdoss
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Contributors
About the authors
Nagendra Kumar Nainar (CCIE#20987) is a senior technical leader with RP escalation team in Cisco Systems. He is the co-inventor of more than 80 patent applications and the coauthor of six internet RFCs, various internet drafts and IEEE papers. He is a guest lecturer in North Carolina State University and a speaker in different network forums.
I would like to thank my dear wife, Lavanya, and lovely daughter, Ananyaa, for their understanding and support; my parents, Nainar and Amirtham; brother, Natesh, and family for their support.
Special thanks to my mentor, Carlos Pignataro, and manager, Mike Stallings. Thanks to Arun, Abayomi for the review. Thanks to all my friends Satish, Poornima, Praveen, Rethna, Vinodh, Mani, Parthi, and the publishers.
Yogesh Ramdoss (CCIE #16183) is a senior technical leader in the technical services organization of Cisco Systems. He is a distinguished speaker at CiscoLive, sharing knowledge and educating customers on enterprise/datacenter technologies and platforms, troubleshooting and packet capturing tools, and open network programmability. Co-inventor of patent in machine/behavior learning.
I would like to thank my wife, Vaishnavi, and kids, Janani and Karthik, for their patience and support.
A special mention of and thanks to Dr. V. Abhaikumar, principal of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. I am very thankful to my coauthor Nagendra Kumar Nainar, manager Michael Stallings, mentor Carlos Pignataro, and all my friends and family.
Yoram Orzach gained his bachelor's degree in science from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and worked in Bezeq as a systems engineer in the fields of transmission and access networks. From being the technical manager at Netplus, he is now the CTO of NDI Communications. His experience is with corporate networks, service providers, and internet service provider's networks, and his client companies are Comverse, Motorola, Intel, Ceragon networks, Marvel, HP, and others. His experience is in design, implementation, troubleshooting as well as training for R&D, engineering, and IT groups.
About the reviewer
Abayomi Adefila is a technical leader in services organization of Cisco systems. His array of accomplishments include B.Tech, M.Sc, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCIP, CCDP, CCIE (R&S) along with MPLS L3 VPN, VRF, ISIS, IPv6, BGP4, MP-BGP, OSPFv2&3, RIPng, Eigrpv6, DS1, DS3, Metro-Ethernet, EEM, OER, advanced routing and switching on Cisco network gears, VPN concentrator, GRE, IPSec, Junipere, and so on. He has been awarded with MCI's outstanding performance ovation award at Verizon and Multiple CAP awards for outstanding performances at Cisco.
Jason Morris is a systems and research engineer with 18+ years of experience in system architecture, research engineering, and large data analysis.
He is a speaker and a consultant for designing large-scale architectures, best security practices on the cloud, near real-time image detection analytics with deep learning, and serverless architectures to aid in ETL. His most recent roles include solution architect, big data engineer, big data specialist, and instructor at Amazon Web Services. He is currently the chief technology officer of Next Rev Technologies.
I would like to thank the entire editorial and production team at Packt, who work hard to bring quality books to the public, and also to the readers of this publication. May this book aid you in your quest for doing great things.
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