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Networking Technologies Assignment
Objectives
This assessment assesses your ability to demonstrate concepts of networks, protocols, and services including the following criteria:
• Evaluation and analysis of communication protocols including HTTP, HTTPS and TCP/IP
You will be required to learn how to use Wireshark (protocol analyser), procedures to generate traffic, and capture for analysis and evaluation. A presentation tool such as MS Power Point will be required to prepare slides to support the presentation.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this assignment students should be able to:
• ULO 2: Analyse and evaluate network technologies and services using a layered approach and network standards.
Preparation
1) This assignment requires students to produce a Panopto video based on task instructions below. This assignment requires video recording equipment such as a notebook equipped with a camera, as well as the software Panopto in Blackboard (see instructions below). If required, you can borrow a laptop from the library.
2) You should be familiar with Panopto in Blackboard for this assignment. It is recommended that you carefully follow the Panopto instructions when submitting your work. It is your responsibility to submit a video file correctly following the instructions. Make sure you select the ‘Panopto Student Video Submission' option as shown below. Otherwise, it will not be successfully submitted.
IMPORTANT: If you submit your video via the wrong option, it may delay the marking of your assessment and/or lead to late penalties. It is the responsibility of students to watch these video instructions and to follow them closely. You can edit your submission multiple times prior to the due date.
3) Practice recording a few times to keep within the time limit, and use the rubric as a guide, as it will be used for grading. Check here to learn how merge videos if necessary. Visit the Panopto for Students intranet site for more resources, and watch the video in the submission folder paying particular attention to the right Mashup tool for submission.
Requirements
Watch this video before submitting your assignment
Provide a video demonstration using Wireshark as per the requirements.
You will need to show footage of yourself completing each task, as well as footage of yourself speaking to the camera about each task. Your video should cover the following tasks:
This task criterion requires students to generate their own traffic for Wireshark (Do not to use the pre-captures available at the Wireshark or Internet websites). Use the lab instructions or search the Internet to find how to generate traffic for each topic.
Task 1 HTTP/HTTPS
Generate and capture your own HTTP and HTTPS traffic and examine the message fields. Explain sequences of messages exchanged between the server and its client for HTTP and HTTPS traffic using Wireshark. Summarise the captured message flow using slides to support your presentation. Contrast both protocols with similarities and differences.
The following shows an example of how to generate HTTP traffic. Note that HTTPS traffic looks different from HTTP and requires security layer to be captured.
a) Clear the browser's cache (click Ctrl+Shift+Delete keys at the same time).
b) Find a site with HTTP. It may not be easy to find as many sites using HTTPS e.g.
c) Open Wireshark and start capturing.
d) Open your browser and access a HTTP site.
e) Stop capturing the packets and close the browser.
f) Find HTTP packets and complete the tasks.
Task 2 TCP/IP Encapsulation
Generate and capture your own TCP/IP traffic and packets and inspect TCP/IP model layers and fields. Analyse and explain encapsulation processes with TCP/IP layers and the header size of each layer and their payload sizes to verify the encapsulation. Summarise the captured message to show header and payload sizes using slides to support your presentation. (Note: Layer 2 also has a trailer)
Attachment:- Technologies Assignment 2.rar