Remote Wireshark

Wireshark is a free and open source packet analyser. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. This is not a well advertised feature but it is possible to use Wireshark to monitor the traffic on a third machine. This may come in handy Read more…

Week 5 – TCP/IP Layer

I continued where I left off from last week; setting up the physical layer for Ethernet connection. After taking a good look at the documentation available, I realized that there were a minimum of 3 commands required to get the line up and running. These commands were, including TCPIP.h header Read more…