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any one please help me to learn wire shark

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1)i want to lean abt wire shak itryed many ways but i cont get the clear idea please some one help me to learn this 2)what is meant by malformed packet is it virus or some thing else

asked 02 Apr '12, 07:53

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  1. Clear idea = "record what is going on on the network and show it in a human readable form". You'll still need to know how network protocols work, otherwise even the "human readable form" will not mean a lot to you. What you probably need is a TCP/IP class of some sort, or get a good book (I can recommend "TCP/IP Illustrated" by Stevens.
  2. "malformed packet" usually means that Wireshark could not decode the packet bytes. This happens if the packet is damaged or Wireshark tries to decode it as a protocol that is isn't. Not a virus, just a bad packet/wrong decoding.

answered 02 Apr '12, 08:05

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