Answer to Question #244468 in Computer Networks for Muhammad Ahsan

Question

use of Wireshark, a packet sniffer, to briefly examine the 802.11

Use the “wlan_packet_capture” file to answer the following questions. After opening the file, enter the string wlan in the filter field and then apply the filter. Find the first probe request message in the trace and use that to answer the following questions.

a. What are the MAC address fields in the 802.11 frame?

b. Which MAC address in this frame corresponds to the wireless host (give the hexadecimal representation of the MAC address for the host)?

i. To the access point?

ii. To the first-hop router?

Answer 1

a) From the given packet, we can conclude that the IP address of source is 192.168.43.174

b)

The required MAC address is : 8a:6b:0d:e4:b6:97

access point: 6.0, 9.0, 12.0, 18.0, 24.0, 36.0, 48.0, 54.0 Mbps

Four data rates are 1.0, 2.0, 5.5, 11.0 Mbps.