Class Lab 2 2 - mathewyanez/tech-journal GitHub Wiki

In this lab the main focus was to understand that the sources are the same because I am using the same device to ping the website. The destination is different because the NIC of the website would be different from that of my gateway.

Through hands on learning and using Wireshark to Follow the ICMP packets we get to see the use of MAC addresses when devices are communicating with one another, the IP adresses used, NAT, and the general flow of packets through the Ping command.

Wireshark is not only useful to analyze traffic, but to understand it and the devices being used. To find a protocol in wire-shark we simply filter through the types of packets, and we can find, as long as wire-shark was running the packet we were looking for with relative ease. TO get a MAC address we can either view it in packet tracer, or use an IP command in a command prompt to find our own devices NIC's MAC address. It is important to remember that the MAC address is attached to the NIC, but that with particular software the MAC address used/displayed CAN be changed.