Netw360 Ilab

NETW360,

Lab #7, Wireshark Introduction and Examining Wireless Frames Lab

Lab Report

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

Wireshark is open source

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

Tree view pane- allows the hierarches view of the header view details

Byte view pane- raw data 10x bytes per row.

Packet list pane- shows packets and the information on each packet, that is separated info columns.

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

Allows you to define which packets are displayed in the list pane

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

This column shows the protocol that the packet is using.

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

To expand the details in a layer you click the + sign

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

802.11b is the channel being used for frame 1

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

The frequency that is being used is 2437

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

The signal level for frame 1 is 11

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

Frame 1 is a broadcast frame

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

The beacon interval is .102400 for frame 1