Network Analysis using Wireshark

Network Analysis using
Wireshark
Student ID: MIT172244
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Contents
Task Description..........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
General Statistics.........................................................................................................................................5
Network Performance.................................................................................................................................7
Comparison 1............................................................................................................................................13
Comparison 2............................................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................17
Reference..................................................................................................................................................18
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Task Description
This report is prepared for the analysis the two given websites using a network analyzer such as
Wireshark Tool. This task requires to analyze the web traffic of websites and with multimedia content.
For the analysis of a couple of websites has to be chosen from the given list. The site has to be chosen as
per the last digit of the Student ID. Name and the ID are given below.
Name: RAMAN
MIT ID: MIT172244
Website sets are given below according to the ID.
- http://www.radionz.co.nz/news
- https://www.skynews.com.au
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Introduction
The Internet is the backbone of the today’s high speed computing world. And all the businesses are
transformed to the web application and these applications relies heavily on the network infrastructure
implemented at the data centre. And in order to maintain the performance of the application the 24x7
monitoring of the application and its services are done. This report is prepared for the analysis of the
network traffic from host to the web server. The analysis of the network traffic is done using the sniffing
technology. The sniffing tool is available both in the hardware and the software. For this task, we have
chosen the Wireshark.
The Wireshark is available freely on the internet and it is open sources and supports multiple formats.
Now, this tool provides various capabilities for the system and network administrator to analyze the
given website network traffic and rectify the issues in the network. And this also helps in providing the
report regarding various factor application services. Now report is described in four parts and each part
is given below.
- General statistics of the websites traffic capture.
- Wireshark graph screenshot for various statistics dependent on the traffic.
- Statistics and graph comparison from both website traffic.
- Network Traffic Packet Evaluation with a different tool like Microsoft Message Analyzer.
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