He used Wireshark's most powerful tool: the window. It listed all the talking pairs. Normally, it showed Client ↔ Server. Tonight, it showed a star topology with Client-3 at the center. But one conversation stood out.
Dr. Aris Thorne, a senior network engineer with tired eyes and a coffee-stained tie, leaned back in his chair. The clock on the wall of Lab 4 read 2:00 AM. For the past six hours, he had been staring at the same screen: Wireshark. wireshark lab
A text conversation materialized in the "Follow UDP Stream" window. It wasn't machine code. It was English. > Is anyone there? > I can see you. He minimized the window. This was a closed lab. No internet access. No Wi-Fi. Just three VMs on a hypervisor. He checked the source IP again: 10.0.0.25. Client-3. The dummy machine. He used Wireshark's most powerful tool: the window
He pinged it. No response.