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MGMT 393 Laboratory Manual
Activity 3.2 — Protocols and Conversations
SOFTWARE REQUIRED. You will need Wireshark (which you downloaded in Activity 1.3), and TCPVIEW,
which you will download this week, in PART 2.
The textbook’s Hands-On Cases, in Chapter 5 and 6, step you through some of this. You may find it
useful to have it handy while doing this Activity.
DON’T PANIC. You’re still not writing a lengthy lab report here – and there’s really not a lot of things
you’ll be doing this week. But you will be cranking through some details with Wireshark, and making
notes as you go along. Don’t rush. Be patient. It will pay off in the long run!
PART 1: Identifying the TCP/IP Layers in a Frame (see Hands-On Project 5.2, pgs 211-212 in the text).
1. START WIRESHARK: Set its Interface and Capture Options so that you’re ready to capture on
your active Internet connection, with NO filtering. START the CAPTURE.
2. BROWSER window: start up your browser, and after your home page loads, exit the browser.
3. STOP CAPTURE. Now, let’s take a closer look at what WIRESHARK found.
A. Click a packet summary in the top pane with HTTP in the protocol field and an INFO line
beginning with GET. In the middle pane Wireshark shows us summaries of each protocol
header. Ignore the lines that start Frame X.
B. Expand the ETHERNET II line in the PACKET DETAILS (middle) pane.
Examine the details that this reveals.
PASTE IN A SCREEN SHOT of that expanded ETHERNET II packet details pane in your
Report. (You might want to grab Wireshark’s scroll bars and expand the window, and
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trim down the parts of the screen shot outside of that area. JING makes that very easy,
but so does PAINT.) What are you seeing here?
What layer of the TCP/IP protocol does this header represent?
C. Collapse that line, and then expand the line starting with INTERNET PROTOCOL. Expand its
sublevels. What is this telling you? PASTE a screen shot of that into your report. What
new information about this conversation are you seeing here?
What layer of the TCP/IP protocol does this header represent?
D. Do the same for the line that begins “Transmission Control Protocol” (expand it, screen
print, past that in your report.) What new information about this conversation are you
seeing here?
What layer of the TCP/IP protocol does this header represent?
E. Do the same for the line that begins “Hypertext Transmission Protocol” (expand it, screen
print, past that in your report.) Can you explain what we’re seeing now, and why it seems
so different than what we’ve seen at the other protocol lines we’ve looked inside?
What layer of the TCP/IP protocol does this header represent?
If you’re not going on to the next part of the lab, close Wireshark