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I still remember how flashed I was seeing the byte-by-byte analysis of a network package for the first time -- it was a real eye opening moment for me.
by maze-le 5y ago
I still remember how flashed I was seeing the byte-by-byte analysis of a network package for the first time -- it was a real eye opening moment for me.
- qiskit 5y agoHate to be that guy, but network packet. But yeah, it's quite the revelation especially when you realize other people can also sniff the network and capture the unencrypted traffic. Remember thinking nobody would waste so much time and energy. How young and naive I was back then.
- tssva 5y agoHate to be that guy, but Wireshark captures and decodes protocols starting at the data layer. So in the most common case what you see is the decode of the ethernet frame which in the majority of cases but not all includes a network packet inside it which Wireshark further decodes. If you were capturing from an ATM network you would see ATM cells being decoded. For some protocols the data layer unit is also referred to as a packet in which case you would see the data layer packet which includes the network packet. But yeah, it is pretty cool no matter what you want to call things.
- yardstick 5y agoI believe the parent was pointing out a typo, package should have been parent. I don’t think he was saying that it only has capabilities from the network layer onwards.