Wireshark Lab-1
Wireshark Lab-1
ARP
1. From the arp-storm file find out the following data (Justify your answer with screen shot)
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-> ARP command is used to find out the MAC address of a device based on its IP Address. It
broadcasts the “Who has <ip address>” to the whole network and the device with that given IP
address sends a response packet.
4. Find out http GET method for both source ip and destination ip. Include a screenshot.
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5. Find out http POST method for both source ip and destination ip Include a screenshot.
6. What is the Internet address of your computer? Include a screenshot and describe where you got
the data to answer this question.
-> It’s 103.250.137.41. I got it by using curl command on a website called ifconfig.me that gives us
our public IP address. We can even visit it via browser to get more info.
7. How many packets did you capture (total of all protocols, not just HTTP)?
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-> I found Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) containing M-SEARCH and NOTIFY methods.
M-SEARCH method is used to Discover all the Microservices while NOTIFY method is used to tell the
service registry about the available Microservice.
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9. Inspect the contents of the first HTTP GET request from your browser to the server. Is there an “IF-
MODIFIED-SINCE” header line in the HTTP GET message? Why or why not?
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DNS
1. Find
(1) the name and IP address of the DNS server that provides the answer; and
(2) the answer itself, which is the host name and IP address of www.gtu.ac.in. Response came from
the local DNS server; it is quite possible that this local DNS server iteratively contacted several other
DNS servers to get the answer.
-> Yes, the response came from local DNS server having IP address 192.168.43.115.
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2. Write down the usage of ipconfig (for Windows) command. show your current TCP/IP information,
including your address, DNS server addresses, adapter type and so on.
-> ipconfig command is used to check all the local network information like default gateway, local IP
address, subnet mask, DNS server addresses, adapter type etc.
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What is the destination port for the DNS query message? What is the source port of DNS response
message?
-> Destination port for DNS query message is 53. Source port of DNS response message is also 53
since its coming from the same server.
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Locate the DNS query and response messages. Are then sent over UDP or TCP?
-> They are sent over UDP
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Examine the DNS response message. How many “answers” are provided? What do each of these
answers contain?
-> 2 answers are provided, each one contains an type A address to access the gtu.ac.in server.
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SMTP
1. Find out the information from smtp file. (Justify your answer with screen shot).
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2. Write down and list out all IP header information for IP packets (Attach screen shot) maximum the
information more the mark.
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3. Analyze Ethernet header and display and list out all Header information.
Thank You
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