Netw 360 Week 7

Lab #7, Wireshark Introduction and Examining Wireless Frames Lab

Lab Report

For questions six through 10 you will need to download the file named NETW360 iLab Files.zip that is found in Doc Sharing. The file in this set of files you will use is named NETW360Lab7.pcap. This file will be opened in Wireshark by double clicking on it once Wireshark has been downloaded and installed onto your computer. Wireshark itself can be downloaded from www.wireshark.org.

1. Is Wireshark open source or propriety? (7 points)

Open source

2. What is seen in each of the three panes that display the packets seen on a local area network? (7 point)

Packet list

Packet details

Packet bytes

3. What does a display filter do? (7 points)

The Display Filter lets you do all of the editing operations, and also lets you choose or a filter to be used to filter the current capture being viewed.

4. What does the protocol column show? (7 points)

Shows the different protocols

5. How do you expand the details in a layer of the packet in the middle frame? (7 points)

Pressing the expand button

6. In frame 1 what channel is being used? (7 points)

7. In frame 1 what frequency is being used? (7 points)

2437

8. In frame 1 what is the signal level? (7 points)

81db

9. What type of frame is frame 1? (7 points)

802.11

10. In frame 1 what is the beacon interval in milliseconds? (7 points)

.0052