Decrypting network layer packets using. MENeT.

Naveed Ahmed Junejo; Noman Ahmed Junejo; Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput

Author(s)

Naveed Ahmed Junejo Institute of Information Technology, Mehran University Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Noman Ahmed Junejo Institute of Information Technology, Mehran University Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput Department of Computer Systems & Software Engineering, Mahran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Abstract

Today the Networks grow in the scale along many dimensions, among these one of the dimensions is to analyze Network Traffic and to predict the traffic for future Networks. The fastest growth of DCN (Data Communication Networks) over the past decades has resulted in the development of various Network Utilities, which perform Network evaluation in different domains. In this paper we present MENeT (Monitor for Ethernet Network Traffic).The MENeT is an extended version of the traffic monitoring utility, which propose a new approach to Internet Traffic Monitoring. The purpose of MENeT is to capture and dissemble the packets flowing through a LAN (Local Area Network) pipe. The MENeT presently only extracts TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) packets. The execution mode of the MENeT is absolutely at Run time. MENeT tracks the packets as they move on from the lowest layer to the upper layer in the TCP/IP Protocol Stack. It efficiently decrypts all the incoming packets using the RFC (Request for Comments) standards. The MENeT is developed to be operational on the platform of windows NT/2000. The results suggest that the MENeT successfully decrypts all the incoming network traffic accurately and efficiently.

Publication Details

Page(s) 21-28

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Published Journal: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Year: 2004

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