Re: Intro Lesson Plan/Tutorial

["Brenda J. Butler via tcpdump-workers" <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb () sourcerer ca>
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> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:42:51 -0400
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> Those are a few simple things you can do with tcpdump, but it doesn't
> really illuminate the network traffic much.
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> Why are the students looking at the tcpdump output?
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> There is no explanation of the network traffic - like what a packet is
> made of (the headers, the payload), the different protocols, the types
> of packets that implement the different protocols - etc.
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> Then again, maybe you aren't going into that much depth.  But to me,
> that is the point of tcpdump - to look at the traffic and to
> understand it.  Sometimes with the ultimate goal of finding out what's
> going wrong with the network.
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> What do you want the students to get out of it?
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> What do the students already know about Linux/Unix?  From the plan you
> gave, they know "cat" (and now they know tcpdump) and have to be
> taught how to stop a running process (ctl-c) and how to redirect
> output to a file.
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> I think it is good to use a program like tcpdump to introduce some
> basics - but maybe a bit more emphasis on teaching shell things like
> redirection and linux/unix concepts like processes will be a good
> foundation for them to learn other things.
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> And, you have put the synopsis on the page - but here is a chance to
> introduce the man pages instead.
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> Well those are my impressions - I hope this is useful for you.  I
> think it's great that you want to teach the kids some command-line
> tools : -)
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> bjb
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Plotnick, Neil via tcpdump-workers wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:26:55 -0400
> > From: "Plotnick, Neil" <nplotnick () everett k12 ma us>
> > Subject: Intro Lesson Plan/Tutorial
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> > I have posted a tutorial designed for my introductory cybersecurity class
> > at my high school. Any observations and suggestions are welcome.
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> > https://github.com/nplotnick/cyber/blob/master/TCPDump%20Tutorial.pdf
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