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Network Analysis Tools

tshark

Wireshark

Wireshark is a network traffic analyser. Below are some of my favorite wireshark filters. I reccommend bookmarking these and creating a custome profile for them.

Cheatsheet

Filter Description
http.request.full_uri == "<url>" Search packets for specific url
pktmon filter add <blah> Create a pktmon filter
(http.request or tls.handshake.type eq 1 and !(ssdp)) basic web request filter which removes simple service discovery protocol traffic
(http.request or tls.handshake.type eq 1 or tcp.flags eq 0x0002 or dns) and !(ssdp) A web traffic filer which includes dns and tcp traffic
urlencoded-form and http.request.method == POST and urlencoded-form.key == "password" Filter for http post requests to a form with the key word of password
ip.addr == 192.168.1.5 and udp.port not in {53, 123} and tcp.port != 443 Filter for all traffic involving 192.168.1.5 but not DNS, NTP or HTTPS traffic
not arp and !(udp.port == 53) No arp or DNS traffic