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ICMP in action

Bogdan Stashchuk demonstrates how to use Wireshark to check ICMP requests and responses.

In this video, you’ll view a demonstration on how to use Wireshark to check ICMP requests and responses.

You will learn more about:

  • how to test the ICMP request and response between a local address and a default gateway
  • why switch destination and source IP addresses in Wireshark for verification
  • how to recognise different responses and their meaning.

Reference the ‘See also’ section for a link to get started with Wireshark.

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