Topology

Connecting to the lab server

Connect to the lab server:

local$ ssh-keygen -R netlab.nanocat.net
local$ ssh lab@netlab.nanocat.net
Password: (see discord)

Connect to your router:

lab@netlab$ list-devices
lab@netlab$ connect DEVICE

Goal

• ping the lab web server from a lab pc
• fetch a web page using curl from the lab web server
• capture those things and analyse with tcpdump
• capture packets, and open them in wireshark locally

Initial configuration

Everything is already configured with default values!

Ping the web server

Connect to a lab PC:

connect clab-www-pcX   <- choose a number

Check your lab PC’s IP address:

ip -c address

Start a ping:

ping 172.16.99.11

Watch your ping

In a different terminal window:

ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump

By default, tcpdump uses eth0 as its interface, and will print output for every packet that it sees.

Stop and start the ping in the other terminal with ctrl-c and up-arrow to recall the last command.

Filter with tcpdump

You will probably be seeing lots of traffic aside from your ping. Filter everything else by only showing icmp packets (Internet Control Message Protocol)

ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump icmp

Try some other filters:

# capture only ARP packets
ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump arp

# capture only LLDP packets (ethertype 0x88cc)
ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump ether proto 0x88cc

# capture only STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) packets
ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump stp

Capture a whole web page

Use curl to fetch a web page from the server.

Start a tcpdump on port 80:

ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump port 80

From your lab PC:

curl http://172.16.99.11/

See the contents of the packets

Start a tcpdump with ASCII interpretation:

ip netns exec clab-www-pc2 tcpdump -nn -s0 -A tcp port 80

Run a curl from your lab PC:

curl http://172.16.99.11/

Capture some packets to disk

Capture 50 packets:

cd         <- make sure you are in your home directory
ip netns exec clab-www-pcX tcpdump -c 50 -w CLEVER_FILENAME.pcap

Generate some pings, or a curl, from your lab PC.

Copy them to your local computer. Locally,

scp lab@netlab.nanocat.net:CLEVER_FILENAME.pcap .

Open this file locally in Wireshark.