Wi-Fi Troubleshooting with Debookee

We welcome Thomas Baudelet from France. Together, we talk about network and Wi-Fi troubleshooting in general and we go over the Mac OS application called Debookee that Thomas created which could be use to troubleshoot a Wi-Fi network.

Thomas Baudelet works as an independent Network Engineer and specializes in troubleshooting. He has been involved in the Wireshark community and he created a network analyzer application for MacOS called Debookee. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @debookee.

Content

• Presentation of the Debookee tool, Thomas gave us a little bit of history on how he decided to create the tool
• Presentation of the different modules (including the Wi-Fi Monitoring module)
• Presentation of what is coming next (New SSL decrypt module)
• Thomas explains how he studied Wi-Fi in order to be able to create a tool that would be used by WLAN professionals
• Troubleshoot methodologies
• What tools does Thomas uses on the field

Screenshots of Debokee

Resources

Here are some useful links related to this week episode:

• Debookee website: https://debookee.com/
• Debookee Tools: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/debookee-tools/id1110355801
• Download and test Debookee: https://www.iwaxx.com/debookee/debookee.zip
• Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/debookee
• Thomas’ really cool Business Card: https://twitter.com/tomlabaude/status/838747925052260354

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