LAB2‐1 Observation Capture - devinziegler/Devin-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Assignment: Lab 02-1 - Observe traffic in simple LAN

This lab goes over the role of MAC address in LAN communication and introduces basic features of Wireshark and traffic analysis

ping <target_IP>

• This command will send ICMP packets to the target.

• Start listening in Wireshark on the ethernet interface.
• Filter for icmp packets using the filter bar at the top of Wirehsark.
• Source and Destination MAC addresses will be displayed in the Ethernet II window.
• The first 6 bytes in a packet will always be the destination MAC address.
• When pinging outside LAN you will not see the MAC address of the target system. Instead you will see the MAC address of your default gateway.