The main goal of this lab is to get you familiar with the equipment and the basics of setting up a network. You become acquainted with setting up a LAN with a single IP subnet and also learn how to how to analyze traffic using tcpdump and ethereal.

Goal

The main goal of this lab is to get you familiar with the equipment and the basics of setting up a network. You become acquainted with setting up a LAN with a single IP subnet and also learn how to how to analyze traffic using tcpdump and ethereal.
 

Prerequisites

Before you start this lab you should be able to -

• Execute basic command in Red Hat Linux.

• Understanding of IP Addressing scheme.

• Setup the network configuration using ifconfig or the Gnome/KDE.

Setup

The setup of this lab is very simple. You need to connect 4 Linux PCs in a star topology using an Ethernet hub.

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