Netw310W5Labreport

NETW310 Week 5 Lab Report

To complete your Week 5 Lab Report, answer all of the questions below.

Create your report using the template starting on page 2 and submit it to the Week 5 Dropbox by the due date.

Nicole Coulson

NETW310, Professor Farr

8/11/13

Lab #5, Wireshark Introduction Lab

Lab Report

Each answer is worth seven points.

Use a red colored font for you answers.

Place the answers below the questions.

1. Is Wireshark open-source or proprietary? Open source

2. What is seen in each of the three panes that display the packets seen on a local area network? Packet list pane shows the packets that have been captured, Tree view pane shows the headers of the various protocols encapsulated in the packet, Byte view pane shows the raw data 16 bytes per row.

3. What does a display filter do? Allows you to define which packets are displayed in the list pane.

4. What does the protocol column show? Shows the highest level protocol in that frame

5. How do you expand the details in a layer of the packet in the middle frame? By clicking the + sign

6. Capture files have what file name extension? .pcap

7. The time column shows what? The time relative to the first packet

8. When you right click on something in one of the panes what happens? A menu of actions that you can apply to that packet.

9. How is a display filter removed? Select clear in the filter pane

10. When a filter is correct what color is the background of the filter window? Green