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© 2006, The Technology Firm What is Ethereal (From Docs.)  Ethereal is a GUI network protocol analyzer. It lets you interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved capture file.  Ethereal knows how to read libpcap capture files, including those of tcpdump, snoop (including Shomiti) and atmsnoop, LanAlyzer, Sniffer (compressed or uncompressed), Microsoft Network Monitor, AIX's iptrace, NetXray, Sniffer Pro, Etherpeek, RADCOM's WAN/LAN analyzer, Lucent/Ascend router debug output, HP- UX's nettl, the dump output from Toshiba's ISDN routers, the output from i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project, the output in IPLog format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, and pppd logs (pppdump format).  Display filters in Ethereal are very powerful; more fields are filterable in Ethereal than in other protocol analyzers, and the syntax you can use to create your filters is richer. As Ethereal progresses, expect more and more protocol fields to be allowed in display filters.  Packet capturing is performed with the pcap library. The capture filter syntax follows the rules of the pcap library. This syntax is different from the display filter syntax.

© 2006, The Technology Firm Ethereal Screen Layout A protocol tree is shown, allowing you to drill down to exact protocol or field that you interested in. a hex dump shows you exactly what the packet looks like when it goes over the wire. The summary line, briefly describing what the packet is. Filename Of Current File

© 2006, The Technology Firm Edit -> Preferences -> Columns This screen allows you to add or move columns around. For consistency, I always recommend you name your columns the same as the descriptions noted in the ‘pull down’ menu.

© 2006, The Technology Firm Neat Feature – ‘Sorting Columns’ Output is Sorted By Frame No By Default After Sorting By Info Click Info Header

© 2006, The Technology Firm Neat Feature – ‘Drag and Drop’  You can now drag and drop a file from Windows Explorer directly into Ethereal.

© 2006, The Technology Firm Neat Feature – ‘Follow TCP Stream’ See the next slide for the results,

© 2006, The Technology Firm Neat Feature – ‘Conversation List’  You can now see a list of all the TCP, IP or MAC addresses.

© 2006, The Technology Firm Results for Follow TCP Stream  By default the red text is the data received by the client.  This color/feature may be modified via the Edit->Preferences->TCP Streams menu.

© 2006, The Technology Firm How To Use The ‘Decode As’ Feature

© 2006, The Technology Firm How To Rebuild A Captured Web Page Using Ethereal

© 2006, The Technology Firm 1. Select ‘Follow TCP Stream’

© 2006, The Technology Firm 2. Select Save As And Provide A HTML Extension

© 2006, The Technology Firm 3. Open Newly Created file

© 2006, The Technology Firm Capture Filters  Seems complicated at best.  The capture filter syntax follows the rules of the pcap library  This syntax is different from the display filter syntax.  Ethereal documentation asks you to check the manual page of tcpdump  Sample filters src ip ether src 00:50:BA:48:B5:EF

© 2006, The Technology Firm More On Capture Filters  A capture filter for HTTP than captures traffic to and from a particular host tcp port 80 and host  A capture filter for HTTP than captures traffic not from a particular host tcp port 80 and not host  A capture filter to and from an ethernet address ether 00:00:01:01:02:22

© 2006, The Technology Firm Display Filter Comparison Operators  The comparison operators can be expressed either through C-like symbols, or through English-like abbreviations:  eq, == Equal  ne, != Not equal  gt, > Greater than  lt, < Less Than  ge, >= Greater than or Equal to  le, <= Less than or Equal to

© 2006, The Technology Firm GUI Display Filter

© 2006, The Technology Firm Match Selected – Quick Display Filter Quick Way to Learn Display Filter Commands

© 2006, The Technology Firm Save Selected Frames - OPE 1.Go to File -> Save Capture. 2.In the next screen, select the From Frame ID# radio button and enter the frame number range. 3.Provide location and File Name

© 2006, The Technology Firm How To Define A Capture Filter Using Ethereal

© 2006, The Technology Firm Figure Out Your MAC Address  Go to your command prompt and type “ipconfig /all” (without the quotes).  The resulting display will contain the following info: 1 Ethernet Adapter : Description : Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 Adapter Physical Address : A4-E DHCP Enabled : Yes

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