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Network Analysis: Packet Capture

In this lab, you’ll practice packet collection and analysis. When you’re finished, you’ll have collected and processed packet information generated from visiting a website..

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(151 reviews)
Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 50m
Published
Clock icon Aug 26, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    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!

  2. Challenge

    Collect Packet Data with tcpdump

    In this challenge, you will be visiting your company website and collecting incoming and outgoing packets from the website.

  3. Challenge

    Capture Packet Data with Wireshark

    Viewing data on tcpreplay may be hard to visualize. In this challenge, you will be using wireshark to collect, visualize, and analyze the packets in a pcap file. You will see that a lot of different types of traffic flows to and from the network and how requests may consist of many packets.

  4. Challenge

    Use tcpdump and tcpreplay to Replay Server Responses

    In this challenge, you will be using tcpreplay to only replay traffic coming from the server on your workspace machine and ignore all client requests..

  5. Challenge

    The Last 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.

Miguel Saavedra is an author, solutions architect, and Instructor specializing in AWS, big data, automation, and security. He has worked in several companies in the finance/fintech, education, and medical industries as well as some government projects. He has published and conducted research on both cloud and on-premise solutions for big data focusing on network analytics, and machine learning. He also designs highly available and automated CICD toolchains for high throughput microservices on AWS.

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