Using Wireshark to identify and analyze ARP, ICMP, and DNS traffic is a great tool to add to a network engineer’s toolkit. Many of the most easily corrected problems on a network can be solved by understanding proper operation of these protocols.

Network engineers can quickly become frustrated with unusual network performance issues. While most engineers are familiar with ARP and know how to clear a cache on a device, and they use ping regularly to troubleshoot networks, understanding both ARP and ICMP operation at the packet level will bring a new