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    Solution: What Is The IP Address of Your Computer?

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    This document summarizes the results of a student's lab experiment examining the contents of IP packet headers for ICMP echo request messages sent from their computer. The student determined their computer's IP address, that the upper layer protocol was ICMP, how to identify fragmented packets based on header fields, and observed that identification fields incremented by 1 for each new message while TTL fields remained constant. They also examined packet fragmentation when increasing the ping size and identified which header fields differed between fragments.

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    This document summarizes the results of a student's lab experiment examining the contents of IP packet headers for ICMP echo request messages sent from their computer. The student determined their computer's IP address, that the upper layer protocol was ICMP, how to identify fragmented packets based on header fields, and observed that identification fields incremented by 1 for each new message while TTL fields remained constant. They also examined packet fragmentation when increasing the ping size and identified which header fields differed between fragments.

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    This document summarizes the results of a student's lab experiment examining the contents of IP packet headers for ICMP echo request messages sent from their computer. The student determined their computer's IP address, that the upper layer protocol was ICMP, how to identify fragmented packets based on header fields, and observed that identification fields incremented by 1 for each new message while TTL fields remained constant. They also examined packet fragmentation when increasing the ping size and identified which header fields differed between fragments.

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    This document summarizes the results of a student's lab experiment examining the contents of IP packet headers for ICMP echo request messages sent from their computer. The student determined their computer's IP address, that the upper layer protocol was ICMP, how to identify fragmented packets based on header fields, and observed that identification fields incremented by 1 for each new message while TTL fields remained constant. They also examined packet fragmentation when increasing the ping size and identified which header fields differed between fragments.

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    LAB 4A
    1) Select the first ICMP Echo Request message sent by your computer, and expand
    the Internet Protocol part of the packet in the packet details window.
    What is the IP address of your computer?
    SOLUTION
    The IP address of my computer is 192.168.1.102

    2) Within the IP packet header, what is the value in the upper layer protocol field?
    SOLUTION
    The value of the upper layer protocol field is ICMP (0X01)
    3) How many bytes are in the IP header? How many bytes are in the payload of the
    IP datagram? Explain how you determined the number of payload bytes.
    According to the figure 1, the header length is 20 bytes and the total length is 56
    bytes. Therefore, the payload of the IP datagram should be 36 bytes (56 bytes – 20
    bytes).
    4. Has this IP datagram been fragmented? Explain how you determined whether or not the
    datagram has been fragmented.
    This IP datagram has not been fragmented. I know this because the more fragments bit has not been
    set.
    5. Which fields in the IP datagram always change from one datagram to the next within this
    series of ICMP messages sent by your computer?
    The header checksum and the Identification changes from each datagram to the next.
    6. Which fields stay constant? Which of the fields must stay constant? Which fields must
    change? Why?
    Fields that stay constant:
    - Version (IPv4)
    - Length of header
    - Source IP (sending from same place)
    - Destination IP (contacting same site)
    - Upper layer protocol (always using ICMP)
    Fields that must stay constant:
    - Same as above
    The fields that must change are:
    - The header checksum (header changes)
    - Identification (to verify packets)
    7. Describe the pattern you see in the values in the Identification field of the IP datagram
    The value of the identification field is incremented by 1 on every new outgoing
    message.
    8. What is the value in the Identification field and the TTL field?
    Identification: 42507
    TTL: 244

    9. Do these values remain unchanged for all of the ICMP TTL-exceeded replies sent to your
    computer by the nearest (first hop) router? Why?
    - The Identification field changes from all of the replies because this field has to have a
    unique value. If they (2 or more replies) have the same value then the replies must be
    fragments of a bigger packet.
    - The TTL field does not change because the time to live to the first hop router is always
    the same.
    10. Find the first ICMP Echo Request message that was sent by your computer after you changed
    the Packet Size in pingplotter to be 2000. Has that message been fragmented across more than
    one IP datagram?
    Yes, that message has been fragmented across more than one IP datagram.
    11. Print out the first fragment of the fragmented IP datagram. What information in the IP header
    indicates that the datagram been fragmented? What information in the IP header indicates
    whether this is the first fragment versus a latter fragment? How long is this IP datagram?
    The fact that the flag is set fot more segments shows that the datagram has been fragmented (see
    above). The fragment offset is set to 0 indicating that this is the first fragment rather than a latter
    fragment where that value is set to 1480. The datagram has a total length of 1500.

    12. Print out the second fragment of the fragmented IP datagram. What information in the IP
    header indicates that this is not the first datagram fragment? Are the more fragments? How can
    you tell?
    The second fragment is obvious because it now has a a fragment offset of 1480. There are no
    more fragments because it no longer has a flag set for more fragments.
    13. What fields change in the IP header between the first and second fragment?

    The fields that change are:


    - Length
    - Flags set
    - Fragment offset
    - Header checksum

    14. How many fragments were created from the original datagram?

    After switching to 3500 bytes, 3 fragments are created.


    15. What fields change in the IP header among the fragments?
    The fields that change are the fragment offset (0, 1480, 2960) and checksum. The first 2 packets also
    have lengths of 1500 and more fragments flags set, while the last fragment is shorter (540) and does
    not have a flag set.

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