LAN Activity

Mac Address

A mac address is a identifier of a physical piece of hardware that handles network data. The first 6 characters of a mac address identify the manufacture and the later 6 characters identify the specific mac address to that hardware.

Mac Addresses are hard coded to the NIC

Wire Shark

Wireshark is software to analyze packets over the network. Wireshark records the packets over a period of time which can then be filtered through and stored to analyze and examine specific packets. For example packets can be sorted by typing in the protocol on the search such as icmp to find ping requests.