The document provides instructions for a lab activity involving network connectivity and packet analysis tools. Students will use the ping and traceroute tools to verify connectivity and trace routes to remote servers. They will also use Wireshark to capture and analyze ICMP data packets between two hosts in a simulated Mininet topology. The objectives are to familiarize students with basic network diagnostics using common network utilities and gain experience using Wireshark to observe network traffic at the packet level.