Author: lmcelhaney

This builds off of Sniffing Networks Part 3- Understanding what you’re seeing.  This article introduces another tool to use for network sniffing and compares it to the previously mentioned Wireshark. You’ve already been introduced to Wireshark and learned how to use it.  We now consider another tool, Colasoft Capsa Enterprise Edition, which can be used for network sniffing as well.  Colasoft Capsa offers many of the same features as Wireshark and introduces new features in analysis.  Similar to Wireshark, Colasoft Capsa captures and decodes packets, and supplies a hex view of each packet.  Below is a screenshot of the packet view in Colasoft Capsa.  Both programs automatically color code protocols. Colasoft Capsa allows you to apply filters to view select types[…]

This article builds off of the Sniffing Networks series and introduces Colasoft Capsa Enterprise Edition, which can be used for network sniffing and analysis. To get started capturing packets with Colasoft Capsa, click on the “Start Capture Now” button on the opening screen. Clicking this will open the project settings, which can be customized depending on the project. The project settings can also be modified later by the toolbar at the top of the window. Click OK to get started. This starts the capture which can be stopped at any time by clicking the stop button along the top toolbar. After capturing packets there will be two additional docked windows to the left, and the main window now contains ten[…]