Here is the tentative plan for the semester. I'm not sure we've ever followed this plan exactly, as I often move things around when I detect students need to go slower at some point, or we can speed up through something.
| Week | Topic | Assigned Reading for Week (due Sunday, 5pm) |
Learning Objectives | Labs | Q and As, etc. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 - 6 | Big Picture Exercise; Intro. to Networking, Client-Server Model |
Chapters 1 and 2, Chapter 3 - 3.11 |
Week 1 | ||
| Feb 8 - 13 | Transmission Media, LANs |
Chapter 7 - 7.10, Chapter 13 |
Week 2 |
Ifconfig and Wireshark |
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| Feb 15 - 20 | CSMA/CD, Ethernet |
Chapter 14.6.2, Chapter 15 |
Week 3 |
Q and A slides | |
| Feb 22 - 27 | Bridges, Switches, etc. |
Chapter 17 |
Week 4 |
Hubs and Switches |
Q and A slides |
| Feb 29 - Mar 5 (Prof. Norman gone Mar. 2 - 5) |
Internetworking, |
Chapter 20 |
Week 6 |
Visit to CIT, Mar. 2; Test 1, Mar. 4 |
Q and A slides |
Mar 7 - 11 |
IP addressing |
Chapter 21 |
Week 7 |
In the classroom | Q and A slides |
Mar 21 - 24 |
Packet Forwarding |
Chapter 22 (reading due Mar. 22, 5pm) |
Week 8IPv6 SLOs |
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| Mar 29 - Apr 2 | Packet Forwarding |
Configuring a router to do switching |
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| Apr 4 - 9 | ARP, ICMP, DHCP |
Chapter 23, up to 23.14 |
Week 9 |
DHCP configuration Test 2 |
Q and A slides |
| Apr 11 - 16 | NAT (from Ch. 23), UDP TCP |
Chapter 25, Chapter 26 |
NAT, UDP TCP |
Firewall Lab |
Q and A slides |
| Apr 18 - 23 | Routing |
Chapter 27 - 27.7.4, 27.12, 27.13 |
Week 12 |
NFS Configuration |
Q and A slides |
| Apr 25, 29 (Advising Apr 26, 27) |
Shell Scripting |
No reading |
Slides | ||
| May 2 - 7 | Network Measurement |
Chapter 28 - 28.8 | DNS Configuration |
Slides | |
| May 9 - 12 |
Network Management |
Ch. 31 |
Week 14 |
Final Exam Take-home Part |
Slides |
| Monday, May 16, 9:00am | Final Exam | Reserve lab: Network Management Tools |