- 06-14, 09:00–17:00, Room A
- 06-15, 09:00–17:00, Room A
All times in US/Eastern
Level up your Wireshark skills and get ready for Sharkfest! This hands-on course will provide core Wireshark skills for IT pros of all experience levels. Participants will gain a solid understanding of how to use Wireshark to capture, analyze, and troubleshoot network traffic. The course is designed with beginners in mind, but even seasoned packet people will pick up new tips and tricks.
Topics Covered:
Introduction to network analysis and the role of Wireshark
Installing and configuring Wireshark
Analyzing captured packets, understanding protocol structures, and identifying network issues
Utilizing powerful filtering techniques to isolate specific traffic and find the packets that matter
Deep Dive into ARP, IP, ICMP, DNS, DHCP, TCP, UDP, QUIC, HTTP, TLS, and much more!
Working with command-line tools like TShark
Ross has had a diverse career in engineering, beginning as a structural engineer, then project engineer for a gas utility, Ross was always quickly
assigned the de-facto network administrator, typically after no one else was brave enough to break, and later fix, the network. This lead to working as a network engineer designing and implementing enterprise networks for a major university hospital. Here he worked with
Extreme Networks, HP, Cisco, Tipping Point, among other network technology, as well as honed his Wireshark and protocol analysis skills. Ross
spent 7 years teaching data networking at Madison College, and in 2017 started authoring and producing IT training videos in Wireshark/Protocol
Analysis, Cisco, and general networking topics for www.Pluralsight.com. In his free time, you'll find Ross and his dog at the beach swimming and
surfing, traveling, hiking, or snowboarding somewhere in the western US.
Like you, Chris likes digging into packet captures to figure out how things work. When he is not teaching people the art of packet analysis in live courses, YouTube videos, or at conference seminars, you can find him in the packet trenches with clients from all over the world. Chris has been attending and speaking at Sharkfest since 2011 and enjoys learning new things right alongside attendees of all experience levels.