ECE 5650 Lab 1

Done by: Idir Mahrouche – gq7384

Sandip Patil – gr0933

Introduction to Wireshark
We launch Wireshark and start capturing packets, and then open our client and look out
http://nabil.eng.wayne.edu/. We obtain the results below:

Q1)
List 3 different protocols that appear in the protocol column in the unfiltered packet-listing
window.

Figure 1 Screenshot of Wireshark-captured packets

As it is depicted in Figure 1, we can list below 3 different protocols that appear in the protocol
column:
- Transmission Control Protocol (Transport layer)
- User Datagram Protocol (Transport Layer)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Application Layer)

Q2)
How long did it take from when the HTTP GET message was sent until the HTTP OK
reply was received? (By default, the value of the Time column in the packet-listing window is
the amount of time, in seconds, since Wireshark tracing began. To display the Time field in
time-of-day format, select the Wireshark View pull down menu, then select Time Display
Format, then select Time-of-day.)
Results obtained with Chrome

Figure 2 http-filtered packets using Chrome

We do not see an OK reply, instead we notice 404 Not Found (even though the page opens and is
visible).
The time it took to reply is the difference in time (in seconds) which is:
TimeOK-TimeGET= 7.058722-7.048901= 0.009821 sec = 9.821 ms.

Results obtained with Edge

Figure 3 http-filtered packets using Edge

This time, an OK message was received.

The time it took to reply is the difference in time (in seconds) which is:
TimeOK-TimeGET= 7.212259-7.048901= 0.163358 sec = 163.358 ms.
Interestingly we obtain different results when we open the same URL with Chrome and Edge,
the image below shows the difference.

Figure 4 shows different results for same URL using different clients

Q3)
What is the internet address of http://nabil.eng.wayne.edu/
Wireshark gives displays this IP address next to the GET messages: 141.217.43.33
Q4)
What is the internet address of your computer?
Wireshark gives displays this IP address next to the OK/Not Found messages: 35.16.124.167

Q5)
The print-outs are attached.
We have attached both the OK message and Not Found message.