Packet Filtering: Catching the Cool Packets!

Book Title: Packet Filtering: Catching the Cool Packets! Author: Laura Chappell Publisher: podbooks.com Year: 2001

Table of content

• Introduction – About This Pod
• Chapter 1 – Packet Filtering and Offsets
• Chapter 2 – Address Filtering
• Chapter 3 – Protocol Filtering
• Chapter 4 – Pattern Filtering
• Appendix A – Answers to Chapter Tests
• Appendix B – Hex-Decimal-Binary Conversion Chart
• Appendix C – Importing and Exporting Sniffer Filters
• Appendix D – Importing and Exporting EtherPeek Filters

Description

This book covers the basic through advanced methods of filtering on hack traffic, ICMP traffic, IP fragments, subnet traffic and more. If you want to know how to build filters to capture specific application traffic based on its signature, this is the book for you. Includes instructions for capturing ‘data theft’ using signatures rather than port numbers . Also includes step-by-step instructions for checking for Gnutella, Morpheus, and iMesh traffic regardless of the port the users/servers are using! This book includes step-by-step instructions for importing sample filters into EtherPeek and Sniffer.