EE281 Internetworking Anuj Gargeya Malkapuram Internetworking - Wireshark Software: Wireshark 1.10.5 Platform: Mac OSX – 10.9.1 – Mavericks Additional Software: XQuartz, X11 to support Wireshark in Mavericks Wireshark: Wireshark is a software which captures packets which are in a network and will analyze them. It will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible. It is also a protocol analyzer or sniffer. Packet analyzer is a computer program that can intercept log over the network. Wireshark helps us find out the target packets. If we open a website, we get tons of packets with specific protocols with different colors which has its own function. Description: Captured and analyzed packets in a specific time frame using Wireshark 1.10.5. Summary: 1) Installed Wireshark 1.10.5 on Mac OSX 10.9.1 and XQuartz to support the Wireshark on Mac Platform. 2) Started Capturing the packets by clicking on capture in Wireshark. 3) Opened the Safari Browser in which the homepage is www.yahoo.com . 4) After browsing, stopped capturing the packets and started analyzing them. 5) From the Wireshark software we get detailed information of all the packets that are captured during the time Internetworking - Wireshark Anuj Gargeya Malkapuram 1