James Graves
NETW360, Professor Matter
10/20/2012
Lab #7, Wireshark Introduction and Examining Wireless Frames Lab

Lab Report
This week 7 ILab focuses on an application called Wireshark. We are to download Wireshark from Wireshark.com and follow the questions to come up with answers.

1. Is Wireshark open source or propriety? (7 points)
Wireshark is an open source network packet analyzer.

2. What is seen in each of the three panes that display the packets seen on a local area network? (7 point)
Like other protocol analyzers, Wireshark's main window shows 3 views of a packet. The Tree view pane allows the hierarches view of the header view details. The Byte view pane shows raw data 16 or 10x bytes per row. The Packet list pane shows packets and the information on each packet, that is separated info columns

3. What does a display filter do? (7 points)
The Display Filter allows you change you foreground, background color that is used for matching your specific packet color. They additionally allow you to define which packets are displayed in the listen.

4. What does the protocol column show? (7 points)
It shows the High layer protocol in the frame.

5. How do you expand the details in a layer of the packet in the middle frame? (7 points)
Click on the plus sign to expand and the negative sign to reduce the size.

6. In frame 1 what channel is being used? (7 points)
The saved file name extended.

7. In frame 1 what frequency is being used? (7 points)
This column shows the protocol that the packet is using and the time relevant to the packet.

8. In frame 1 what is the signal level? (7 points)
A menu of options appear and one of the action is to show Packet in the New Window.

9. What type of frame is frame 1? (7 points)
Click clear in the filter area
10. In frame 1 what is the beacon interval in milliseconds? (7 points)