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Network Analysis: Identifying Network Protocols with Packet Analysis
In this lab, you'll practice monitoring and understanding network traffic through packet analysis. When you're finished with this lab, you'll have experience using tcpdump to capture traffic, and Wireshark to analyze it.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Get Comfortable with the Environment
Figure out how to identify and then access the two LXD containers you'll be using to complete all the steps in this lab.
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Identify Incoming Network Traffic Using tcpdump
Use the tcpdump network monitoring tool to understand some normal traffic patterns from the data you capture
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Launch a Denial of Service Attack Against Your Server
Use the slowhttptest tool to simulate an attack on the net1 container, tcpdump to send traffic data to a .pcap file, and Wireshark to analyze the results.
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Final Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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