Packet Sniffing with Wireshark - Final Thoughts
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We are pretty confident that literally every network technician, security analyst, system administrator, IT professional, or anyone that’s interested in what happens inside those network cables (or wireless waves) agrees that Wireshark is one of those tools that really helps in our day-to-day work. You cannot know when you’ll be facing a situation where you absolutely need to know what happens. That's when you sniff!
This is why it is important to be familiar with Wireshark. It is not like you’d be using it with constant regularity; it's better to try it out and have fun with it, so that when the time comes that you really need it, you will already be proficient in its use. Software developers also use Wireshark every so often, especially when coding some TCP/IP program.
On the second page we enumerated some of the most frequent uses for packet capturing. Now that list was quite extensive. And chances aren’t slim at all… that you will run into a situation where you will be glad you know what is within that packet that went across your network interface card (NIC). This is how you will find out that your favorite Instant Messaging software does not use encryption, for example…
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