Netw 310

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.

Your Name Gregory Savage

NETW310, Professor Gonzales

Current Date 8/6/2013

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? Wireshark is open source.

2. What is seen in each of the three panes that display the packets seen on a local area network? Tree view pane-allows the hieraches 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?

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

4. What does the protocol column show?

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?

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

6. Capture files have what file name extension?

7. The time column shows what?

8. When you right click on something in one of the panes what happens?

9. How is a display filter removed?

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