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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

  • Introduction to network troubleshooting
  • Defining network troubleshooting
  • Essential troubleshooting tools
  • Standard troubleshooting methodologies
  • Overview of Wireshark
  • Operational principles of Wireshark
  • Capturing packets
  • Understanding capture and display filters
  • Configuring global preferences
  • Navigation and colorization techniques
  • Utilizing time values and summaries
  • Examining basic trace file statistics
  • Saving, exporting, and printing data
  • Capture and display filters
  • Capture filters – basics and filter language
  • Display filters – basics and filter language
  • Recommended filters
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Utilizing time values and summaries
  • Configuring the default time column setting and precision
  • Measuring time between packets
  • Setting a time reference and viewing capture times
  • Troubleshooting timing issues
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Leveraging Statistics tools
  • Creating I/O graphs
  • Creating TCP Time-Sequence graphs
  • Analyzing flow graphs
  • Evaluating service response times
  • Creating Round-Trip-Time graphs
  • Analyzing TCP/IP flows
  • Analyzing application flows
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Fundamentals of the Expert System
  • Normal and abnormal network communications
  • Root causes of performance issues
  • Packet losses, excessive ACKs, and retransmissions
  • Lab and case studies
  • Bandwidth issues
  • Measuring bandwidth
  • Calculating user/flow throughput
  • Calculating application throughput
  • Addressing bandwidth and throughput problems
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Latency issues
  • Key factors in calculating latency
  • Identifying periods of high latency
  • Utilizing free latency calculators
  • Applying the frame.time_delta filter
  • Lab exercises and case studies
  • Packet loss and retransmissions
  • Packet loss and recovery mechanisms in UDP and TCP
  • Events involving lost previous segments and out-of-order segments
  • Duplicate ACKs and Fast Retransmissions
  • TCP retransmissions
  • Zero window conditions, window size changes, and related issues
  • Lab exercises and case studies

Requirements

Participants should have a foundational understanding of networking concepts and the TCP/IP protocol stack. Attendees are required to bring laptops with Wireshark software installed (available for free download at www.wireshark.org).

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