The company has asked you to perform some basic network administrative and troubleshooting tasks as provided below.

dont forget the screenshot in wireshark

Question (T3-Q1):

Assume that there is a customer named Mr Wang who is unable to visit the companys website. Assume further that the companys website is located at www.example.com (they will arrange for an appropriate domain name once the network is fully operational). You are required to provide her with the following troubleshooting advice:

You need Mr Wang to test the reachability to the company's web server by using a ping command with 5 ICMP echo requests, and each echo request packet size set to 12 Bytes. To provide Mr Wang an example of the command they need to run (with www.example.com as the destination URL of the ping command), include a screenshot that shows both the completed ping command with parameters and the output as your answer. (2 marks)

Answer:

Question (T3-Q2):

You are required to suggest a secure protocol for their website. To confirm that your suggestion is valid, do the following:

Use Wireshark to capture related packets between your computer and the web server while visiting the www.example.com website. Use an appropriate filter to display the related packets/frames for this visit's communication. Remember that your computer, which is identified by its IP address in Wireshark is the client, communicating with the web server. Explore some filtered frames and answer the following sub-questions:

Answer:

Web server IP address and port number for www.example.com: (0.5 mark)

Client (your computer) IP address and port number: (0.5 mark)

Include a screenshot below showing such details of your Wireshark capture. (2 mark)