The network administrator contacts you and tells you that she noticed the temperature on the

internal wireless router increases by more than 20% during weekend hours when the office was closed. She asks you to investigate the issue because she is busy dealing with a big conference and she doesn-t have time to perform the task.

What tool can you u

se to view the network traffic being sent and received by the wireless router?

A. Wireshark

B. Nessus

C. Netcat

D. Netstat

Wireshark is a Free and open source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and commu

nications protocol development, and education.

Incorrect Answers:

B: Nessus is an open-source network vulnerability scanner that uses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures architecture for easy cross-linking between compliant security tools.

C: Netcat

(often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP.

D: Netstat provides network statistics.

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