Teaching on Testbeds

Wireshark and tcpdump

Fraida Fund

Runs on: CloudLab, FABRIC, Chameleon, Networking, Security

In this experiment you will practice using tcpdump and Wireshark, two software applications for packet capture and packet analysis.

Using these applications, we can capture raw network data as it arrives at or leaves any host in our experiments, save the raw network packets in a file, and analyze the packets in this file in order to gain insight into network protocols and their behavior.

It should take about 60 minutes to run this experiment.

You can run this experiment on CloudLab, Chameleon, or FABRIC.

Inspecting network traffic with tcpdump and Wireshark

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2231984.

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