tcp analysis with wireshark

through this article, I'd like to help you to learn the art of protocol analysis. this is a hands‑on article, so make sure to get out your copy of Wireshark.

What is tcp:

fundamentally, the Transport Control Protocol allows two endpoints to exchange data reliably and efficiently over a network, even with packet loss. Its job is to reliably and efficiently get that data from one endpoint to another. solidly understanding TCP can help us to troubleshoot things like slowness in file transfers, lagging applications, security breaches, random application disk connections, and much, much, much more.

What is connection:

So let's talk about what is a TCP connection, how that works and how it can help us to troubleshoot