tons of more free articles at www.thetechfirm.com And don't forget to subscribe!! ............... Every time I mention “You should practice” and “Know your tool”, I get comments that people “don’t have the time” or more honestly “yeah, how?”. Fair enough. Here is a video of me using Wireshark and NMAP on a Windows computer to learn about the Windows firewall and how it behaves when it is on and when it is off. You can take this to the ‘next level’ easily for more testing but the video proves that this doesn’t take long to get started. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQlDLhXpeEg
Passive Network Discovery
Someone asked me if you can use Wireshark to discover devices.
The answer is kind of no in the sense that Wireshark doesn’t actively go out and ping or scan your network to find hosts. But you can use Wireshark to listen or ‘passively’ discover devices on your network.
As always, I will keep it short and just say that everything you need to know is in the video.
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I run into this quite often where the client isn't sure which port the client is connected to.
In this example I show you how to do it on my Cisco 2940
Enjoy
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Broadcast Analysis with CDP, EIGRP and STP
I am a huge fan of packet analysis to ensure your network devices are configured and behaving as you expect them to be.
The main takeaway points to keep in mind as you go through your packets is to ask yourself the following questions:
- Does this protocol need to be on this segment?
- Is this protocol properly configured?
- Is there any further tuning that could be applied to this protocol?
- Are there any security considerations for network protocols (i.e. clear text information)
In this video I chat a bit about EIGRP, STP and EIGRP. Specifically, I go over some of the protocol contents, what they mean and what you might want to tune.
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Outdoor Install Notes
Over the years I have noticed that the majority of network analysts I encounter have worked on indoor installations.
Installing equipment outside is totally different. When you’re inside you have the luxury of keeping things dry and all and the advantage of environmental and power controls. Things to keep in mind when you to install things outside is obviously weather protection, grounding, and ensuring that what you install is accessible when it comes to service or upgrading equipment.
At a bare minimum get familiar with the IP (ingress protection) ratings. Ingress Protection (IP) ratings are defined in the IEC 60529 standard using a standardized scale where the IP prefix is followed by two numbers: the first number represents protection against solids and the second number represents protection against liquids. There are also national or regional equivalents of the standard such as ANSI 60529 (United States) and EN 60529 (Europe).
Anybody who installs equipment outside should take the time to speak with the vendor, take a course, or pick somebody’s brain before they plan anything. There a lot of outdoor connector options, so do your homework, especially if you decide to do with something other than what the vendor provides or suggests.
15 years ago, I got into installing wireless radios outside and spent a lot of time with the HAM operators in my area as well as their installers. I would be willing to bet that the majority of the information, tips and tricks they shared isn’t in any book or course. Everything from crimping, to different kinds of sealant, tapes, placement, running a line, lightning arrestors, grounding etc….
I’ve seen many equipment installs fail outside due to a lack of knowledge by the installer or design flaws. If the equipment is going to fail, it will fail when the weather is bad. And guess what? You’re going to have to go outside and work on equipment in the middle of a rain storm, snow storm, ice storm, or any type of storm. And there is a pretty good chance that shortcuts will be taken during the service call to “get things back up ASAP”. I had an arrangement with an outdoor installer that whenever a service call was made on critical network equipment, there would be an informal review, or site visit (when possible) to ensure things are labeled and “done right”. Today we have zoom, facetime, etc.. so there is no excuse to revisit any work that has been performed be it service calls or installation.
In this video, I cover an example of ensuring that your Ethernet connectors are tight and try.
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For those of you who are eagle eyed, you might notice the cable in the video is not shielded, and you would be correct. Unfortunately, the camera and switch did not have shielded ports, so a shielded cable would have done nothing to help.
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Just a snippett from the Fluke Networks Wireless Workshop
Here I raise the issues that many face where the client had a 100 Mb wired link and now has a 54 Mb wireless link.
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After capturing your data, you end up with a trace file. This next step is just as important as capturing the data since you can’t properly analyze or come to meaningful conclusions if you’re not sure where, when and how the data was captured.
This is where Wireshark’s “Capture File Properties” feature comes in. I use this to make notes about the capture such as: and time markers for events, physical location, vlan, contact info if other people were involved and other documents that might have diagrams, config or other info.
As a matter of personal preference, I prefer creating folders with the date and task and put trace files, images, documents, config files, emails and anything
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Join Tony Fortunato and Tim O’Neil on LovemytoolTV on Wednesday November 2, 2016 for a 30 minute session.
Tony will walk through Wireshark navigation, tips, tricks and what to look for when analyzing issues.
Tony Fortunato is a Senior Network Performance Specialist with experience in design, implementation and troubleshooting networks since 1989.
The target audience is anyone who wants to learn about Wireshark to those that have been using Wireshark for a while.
This will be a live broadcast and we encourage audience participation.
Tony Fortunato is a Sr Network Performance Specialist who founded The Technology Firm (http://www.thetechfirm.com) in the late 1980’s. Tony's background in networking started with design, support and implementation of financial trading floor networks and ISP's where Tony integrated and supported various vendors' equipment since1989. Tony works with a variety of products from Microsoft, Fluke Networks, Netscout, Network Instruments and other Open Source products such as protocol analyzers (Wireshark) and MRTG.
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Having a screen recording to document an issue is always helpful when trying to explain the issue to someone else.
I also use a recording in combination with packet captures so I can exactly determine when I do something and which packet to reference.
The challenge in the real world is that many environments do not allow you do install third party, non-approved applications. As long as the information isnt sensitive and I typically deleted the video file after I document what was done and its corresponding packet number.
When this first happened to me, I resorted to using my smartphone to record the screen. After a while I started poking around to see what other options I can find. With Windows 10, you can use the Game Bar application, but I find that most places strip tha....
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In this video I cover GRC Benchmark Tool https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm , Google’s namebench https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/ and DNS Jumper https://www.sordum.org/7952/dns-jumper-v2-1
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