Assignment title: Information
HIT174 Network Engineering Concepts
Assignment 1
This assignment is worth 10%.
Deadline: Mon, Week 5
This is an assignment about utilising Wireshark to investigate packets sent by your PC.
Part A: Ping (3 marks)
Start up Wireshark packet sniffer and open the file PartA.pcapng
A ping request was made to an IP address. Use the information from the captured packet
to answer the following questions:
1. What IP address was the ping sent to? (0.5 mark)
2. What IP address was the ping sent from? (0.5 mark)
3. How many requests have been made in total? (0.5 mark)
4. What is the size of the data sent in each request? (0.5 mark)
5. What is the average response time for this ping request? (1 mark)
Part B: HTTP (5 marks)
Start up Wireshark packet sniffer and open the file PartB.pcapng
The captured packets show the attempts to a password protected website. Using the
information from the captured packet and answer the following questions:
1. What are the IP address and the port number of the password protected website? (0.5
mark)
2. What is the URL of the password protected website? (0.5 mark)
3. How many wrong attempts of password entries have been made before the correct
password has been put in? (0.5 mark)
4. List down the username and password for all the wrong attempts. (1 mark)
5. What text will be displayed on the website when the wrong username or password
was put in? (0.5 mark)
6. How long did it take the person before he finally put in the correct username and
password? (0.5 mark)
7. Write down the corresponding binary data for the request for the website (1 mark)HIT174 Network Engineering Concepts
8. Write down the text data that was been carried in the response from the web server
when the correct username and password have been put in. (0.5 mark)
Part C: Investigation (2 marks)
Start up Wireshark packet sniffer and open the file PartC.pcapng
Briefly describe what you can observe from the captured packets about the actions being
made by the user. (Write down as least 4 useful observations)