Lab 2‐2 ‐ Observing LAN Activity - benjamintyler367/NET-150-Journal GitHub Wiki

Tech Journal: In this lab we captured a ping to a default gateway, we took this and observed it in wire shark. It was a ICMP ping packet. then we did this again with an address outside of the LAN. Some commands that were useful were getmac and ping. I do not remember having any problems in this lab.

Screen Capture 1

Screen Capture 2. There were no response packets here is proof there are none.

Question: What is the MAC address of your workstation's NIC? What is the MAC address of the Default Gateway Router interface (NIC)?

Screen Capture 3.

Screen Capture 4.

Consider: What is a MAC address and what are its components?

• A MAC address is a one of a kind number that is assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications in a network.

How to get a MAC address.

• Type getmac in CMD

What is Wireshark and how to use it.

• Wireshark is a packet capturing program. Here is a good YouTube playlist on how to use it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-A2EmVrKQ&list=PLW8bTPfXNGdC5Co0VnBK1yVzAwSSphzpJ&index=1

How to find a protocol in Whireshark.

• You search in the search bar.