Computer Science Assignment: Network and IP Configuration

This computer science assignment solution addresses network and IP configuration concepts. The student analyzes network addresses, subnetting, and IP address assignments for a company. The assignment involves calculations of network and broadcast addresses, smallest and largest IP addresses for hosts within subnets, and uses screenshots from Kali Linux and Windows OS to demonstrate network configurations. The solution also includes Wireshark packet captures to analyze TCP traffic, and the use of hping3 to test network connectivity. The assignment covers the concepts of offset fragmentation and demonstrates the application of capture filters in Wireshark. The student provides detailed derivations, screenshots, and code snippets to support the answers. The assignment concludes with a bibliography of relevant research articles.

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Computer Science
Name of the Student
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Author’s Note

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Answer to Question 1:
a. The two smallest network addresses that can be assigned to the subnet of the company
having the network address 178.84.255.0 and direct broadcast address 178.84.237.63
is given below:
Net Address – 178.84. 1111 1111 .00000000
Broadcast Address – 178.84. 1110 1101 .00111111
Here the host bits are marked as blue, and the Net bits are marked as red
178.84.0000 0000. 0000 0000 178.84.0.0
178.84.0000 0000. 0100 0000 178.84.64.0
b. The smallest and the largest IP address that can be assigned to a host for each of the
subnet is given below:
Smallest IP address assigned to hosts
Subnet 1
Smallest IP 178.84. 0000 0000 .0000 0001 178.84.0.1
Largest IP address 178.84. 0000 1101 .0011 1110 178.84.13.62
Subnet 2
Smallest IP 178.84.0000 0000. 0100 0001 178.84.0.65
Largest IP address 178.84. 0000 1101 . 0111 1110 178.84.13.126
c. The two largest network address that can be assigned to the subnet of a company is
given below:
178.84.1111 0010. 1000 0000 178.84.242.128
178.84.1111 0010. 1100 0000 178.84.242.192
d. The smallest and the largest IP address that can be assigned to the host of each of the
subnet is given below:
Subnet 1

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Smallest IP 178.84.1111 0010. 1000 0001 178.84.242.129
Largest IP 178.84.1111 1111. 1011 1110 178.84.255.190
Subnet 2
Smallest IP 178.84. 1111 0010. 1100 0001 178.84.242.193
Largest IP 178.84. 1111 0010. 1111 1110 178.84.242.254
Answer to Question 2:
The following is the screenshot of ifconfig in Kali Linux and its output:
The IP address = 192.168.90.128

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The following screenshot is used for demonstrating the output of ipconfig in the host
Operating system
The IP address of the Windows Host OS is 192.168.90.1.
The following capture filter is applied in Wireshark for capturing only TCP packet having
source port 25 and source IP address of 192.168.90.128.
Scr host 192.168.90.128 and ip[9]=6

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tcp [2:2] =89 && ip[2:2]=1260 && ip[4:2]=6678 && tcp[14:2]=35200
hping3 -I eth0 -p ++84 -c 8 -APRS -N 6678 -w 35200 -d 1260 192.168.90.1

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The following screenshot shows the packet with destination port number 84
The following screenshot shows the packet capture in windows host for the port (84,85,86…
91)

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Answer to Question 3:
The following is the screenshot of ifconfig in Kali Linux and its output:
The IP address = 192.168.90.128

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The following screenshot is used for demonstrating the output of ipconfig in the host
Operating system
The IP address of the Windows Host OS is 192.168.90.1.
OF1 = 0
OF2 = 1480/8
OF3 = 2*1480/8 = 2*185
OF4 = 3*185
.
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OF24 = 24*185 =4440
OF32 = 32*185 =5920
OF37 = 37*185 = 6845
Thus the filter for capturing OF24,32 and 37 is:

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Ip[6:2]&0x1fff= 4440 or ip[6:2]&0x1fff=5920 or ip[6:2]&0x1fff=6845
The windows capture filter = scr host 192.168.90.128 and ip[9]=6
The following is the screenshot provided for the application of capture filter in Windows Host
The following is capture filter applied in Kali Linux (ip[6:2]&0x1fff=4440 or ip[6:2]&0x1fff =
5920 or ip[6:2]&0x1fff =6845)

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The following screenshot shout the output of the following Hping command
Hping3 -I eth0 -p 1234 -c 1 -S -d 56400 192.168.90.1

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The following screenshot shows the 3 fragments captured with offset 35520, 47360 and 54760
The following screenshot is capture for the demonstration of packet captured from windows
host using wireshark

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Bibliography
Tao, J., Yan, Y., Shen, Y., & Wan, J. (2017, October). A hierarchical divisive algorithm for
topology discovery in multi-subnet networks. In 2017 IEEE 17th International
Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT) (pp. 432-440). IEEE.
Zaman, M., Bristy, B. N., & Mukur, T. M. (2018). Internal Security Monitoring of an
Organization by Scapy & Kali Linux.