Course Syllabus: CPSC 332 at Calvin College

A dynamic schedule for the semester is as follows:

• September 6
  • Introduction.
  • Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview.

• September 8
  • Chapter 2: Review of Underlying Network Technologies.

• September 11
  • Hands-On Hand in chapter 3. Note: Use ethereal on a lab machines using windows.
  • Chapter 6: Internet Protocol: Connectionless Datagram Delivery.

• September 13
  • Chapter 10: Protocol Layering.

• September 15
  • Chapter 11: User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

• September 18
  • Hands-On Hand in chapter 12.
  • Chapter 12: Reliable Stream Transport Service (TCP).

• September 20
  • TCP continued.

• September 22
  • Chapter 20: Client-Server.

• September 25
  • Chapter 21: The Socket Interface.

• September 27
  • Hands-On Hand in chapter 13.
  • Chapter 3: Internetworking Concept and Architectural Model.

• September 29
  • Chapter 4: Classful Internet Addresses.

• October 2
  • Chapter 5: Mapping Internet Addresses to Physical Addresses (ARP).

• October 4
  • Hands-On Hand in chapter 5.
  • Chapter 7: Forwarding IP Datagrams.

• October 6
  • Chapter 8: ICMP.

• October 9
  • Chapter 9: Classless and Subnet Address Extensions.

• October 11
  • Chapter 13: Routing Architectures: Cores, Peers, and Algorithms.
  • The Select Statement.
  • Emulab Tutorial.

• October 13 Chapter 13: Routing Architectures: Cores, Peers, and Algorithms.

• October 16 Chapter 14: Routing Between Peers (BGP).

• October 18
  • Hands-On Hand in chapter 6.
  • Chapter 15: Routing Within an Autonomous System.

• October 20
  • Chapter 16: Internet Multicasting.

• October 23
  • Multicasting (Continued).

• October 25 (Advising: no class)

• October 27
  Hand in gateway project (Hands-On, Chapter 8).
  • Multicasting (Continued).

• October 27
  • Chapter 17: IP Switching and MPLS.

• October 30
  • IP Switching and MPLS (Continued).

• November 1
  • Midterm Exam.

• November 3
  • Chapter 18: Mobile IP

• November 6
  • Mobile IP (Continued)

• November 8
  • Chapter 19: Private Network Interconnection

• November 10
  • Private Network Interconnection (Continued)

• November 13
  • Chapter 22: DHCP

• November 15
  • Chapter 23: DNS

• November 17
  • DNS (Continued)
  • Chapter 24: Remote Login

• November 20
  • Chapter 25: File Transfer.

• November 22
  • Chapter 26: Electronic Mail

• November 27
  • Chapter 27: World Wide Web

• November 29
  • Chapter 28: Voice And Video Over IP
• December 1
  • Chapter 29: Network Management

• December 4
  • Chapter 30: Internet Security

• December 6
  • Chapter 31: A Next Generation IP (IPv6)

• December 8
  • Wireless

• December 14 - Final Exam.