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Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO


Kabacan, Cotabato

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CS 08 Networks and Communications


2nd Semester 2023-2024

Title: Hands-On Activity I


Topic: Introduction to Data Communications
Name of Student: Nida Malantawan
Date Received: March 5,2024
Date Sent: March 5, 2024
Due Date: March 19,2024 2300hours

Instruction and Reminders:


• Read and answer carefully the following questions/exercises below.
• Complete the entry above with complete name and date received.
• Plagiarize work will negatively influence your grades in this hands-on activity.
• Use APA (American Psychological Association) style for your citation. Also, include all your sources in the
Reference section. https://www.mendeley.com/guides/apa-citation-guide
• Refer to the Academic Honesty and Confidentiality section of our online classroom via
http://vle.usm.edu.ph

Seeing the PDUs in Your Messages

We talked about how messages are transferred using layers and the different Protocol Data Units (PDUs) used at each
layer. The objective of this Activity is for you to see the different PDUs in the messages that you send. To do this, we’ll
use Wireshark, which is one of the world’s foremost network protocol analyzers, and is the de facto standard that most
professional and education institutions use today. It is used for network troubleshooting, network analysis, software
and communications protocol development, and general education about how networks work.

Wireshark enables you to see all messages sent by your computer, as well as some or all of the messages sent by
other computers on your LAN, depending on how your LAN is designed. Most modern LANs are designed to prevent
you from eavesdropping on other computer’s messages, but some older ones still permit this. Normally, your computer
will ignore the messages that are not addressed for your computer, but Wireshark enables you to eavesdrop and read
messages sent to and from other computers.
This is the Filter Toolbar

Figure 1. Wireshark Capture

“… turning ideas into reality”


Wireshark is free. Before you start this activity, download and install it from http://www.wireshark.org

1. Start Wireshark.

2. Click on Capture and then Interfaces. Click the Start button next to the active interface (the one that is receiving
and sending packets). Your network data will be captured from this moment on.

3. Open your browser and go to a Web page that you have not visited recently (a good one is www.iana.org).

4. Once the Web page has loaded, go back to Wireshark and stop the packet capture by clicking on Capture
and then Stop (the hot key for this is Ctrl + E).

5. You will see results similar to those in Figure 1. There are three windows below the tool bar:
a. The top window is the Packet List. Each line represents a single message or packet that was
captured by Wireshark. Different types of packets will have different colors. For example, HTTP
packets are colored green. Depending on how busy your network is, you may see a small number
of packets in this window or a very large number of packets.
b. The middle window is the Packet Detail. This will show the details for any packet you click on in the
top window.
c. The bottom window shows the actual contents of the packet in hexadecimal format, so it is usually
hard to read. This window is typically used by network programmers to debug errors.

6. Let’s take a look at the packets that were used to request the Web page and send it to your computer. The
application layer protocol used on the Web is HTTP, so we’ll want to find the HTTP packets. In the Filter
toolbar, type http and hit enter.

7. This will highlight all the packets that contain HTTP packets and will display the first one in Packet Detail
window. Look at the Packet Detail window in Figure 1 to see the PDUs in the message we’ve highlighted.
You’ll see that it contains an Ethernet II Frame, an IP packet, a TCP segment, and an HTTP packet. You can
see inside any or all of these PDUs by clicking on the +box in front of them. In Figure 1, you’ll see that we’ve
clicked the +box in front of the HTTP packet to show you what’s inside it.

Deliverables

1. List the PDU at layers 2, 3, and 4 that were used to transmit your HTTP GET packet.
a. Locate your HTTP GET packet in the Packet List and click on it.
b. Look in the Packet Detail window to get the PDU information.

“… turning ideas into reality”


2ndLayer

3RDLayer

4THLayer

“… turning ideas into reality”


2. How many different HTTP GET packets were sent by your browser? Not all the HTTP packets are GET
packets, so you’ll have to look through them to answer this question.

Ans: four(4) different HTTP GET Request packets were sent by browser.

3. List at least five other protocols that Wireshark displayed in the Packet List window. You will need to clear
the filter by clicking on the “Clear” icon that is on the right of the Filter toolbar.

Ans: ICMPv6,TCP,IGMPv3,MDNS,LLMNR

“… turning ideas into reality”

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