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Lab 3 Instructions

This document provides updates and instructions for completing Lab 3 of the MN504 and BN208 courses. It mentions that Ethereal should now be referred to as Wireshark, provides a link to download required trace files, lists the questions to answer from the lab PDF, and provides additional information on Wireshark settings and TCP concepts like RTT that are relevant to the lab. Optional advanced Wireshark topics are also mentioned for additional practice.

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Lab 3 Instructions

This document provides updates and instructions for completing Lab 3 of the MN504 and BN208 courses. It mentions that Ethereal should now be referred to as Wireshark, provides a link to download required trace files, lists the questions to answer from the lab PDF, and provides additional information on Wireshark settings and TCP concepts like RTT that are relevant to the lab. Optional advanced Wireshark topics are also mentioned for additional practice.

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MN504 Networked Application Management and BN208 Networked

Applications
Updates for Lab 3:
Where the lab refers to the package Ethereal, use Wireshark (Ethereal is the
old name for Wireshark).
Open Lab 3 Wireshark TCP large file.pdf and follow the instructions to
complete the lab.
The trace files mentioned in Lab 3 can be downloaded from
http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/ethereal-labs/ethereal-traces.zip. These are
required to answer some of the questions.
Answer following questions using Lab 3 Wireshark TCP large file.pdf
and submit on Moodle:
Question 1-6
Questions 8-12
None: TO make HTTP Continuation visible in info, change the
wireshark settings as below:

Select any TCP packet. In the Packet Details pane, right-click on the "Transmission
Control Protocol" summary line, select "Protocol Preferences" and uncheck "Allow
subdissector to reassemble TCP streams."

You can do the same thing by going to Edit > Preferences > Protocols > TCP.

RTT is the Round Trip Time, a measure of the delay between two hosts. It is
the total time taken for a single packet to leave one machine, reach the other,
and return. You can estimate it by measuring the time from segment
transmission until ACK receipt. A better estimate can be made by averaging
and weighting the values.
Lab 3 also refers to a textbook and might require formulas below:
EstimatedRTT = 0.875 * EstimatedRTT(previous segmentss
EstimatedRTT) + 0.125 * SampleRTT(RTT of current segment)
TCP connection is computed = total data / whole transmission time
You may practice some Advanced Topics for Wireshark (and answer
question13 -15):

Following TCP Streams


Time-Sequence-Graph(Stevens)

For further reading/information you might also use links below:


http://www.tech-pro.net/intro_tcp.html
http://www.ssfnet.org/Exchange/tcp/tcpTutorialNotes.html

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