Calendar

Class Content

• Week 1 Key Concepts (read [Stevens and Fall 2011] chapters 1).

  • Overview

  • Addresses and Names

  • Protocols, the "Protocol Stack", and APIs

• Week 2 Key Concepts ([Stevens and Fall 2011] chapter 2).

  • IP Addresses and their use in routing

• Week 3 Chapter 3

  • Ethernet and ARP basics

• Week 4 Chapter 4-5

  • ARP

  • IP basics

• Week 5 Chapter 5

  • IP Forwarding

• Week 6 Chapter 6

  • DHCP

• Week 7 Chapter 7

  • NAT

• Week 8 -- Midterm

  • Lab Midterm Exam Tuesday, 10/12/2021

  • Midterm on Wednesday, 10/13/2021

• Week 9 Chapter 8

  • ICMP

• Week 10 Chapter 10

  • UDP

• Week 11 Chapter 11

  • DNS

• Week 12 Chapter 12

  • TCP Basics

• Week 13 small parts of Chapters 13-16

  • TCP operations and performance

• Week 14 Chapter 3

  • WiFi

• Week 15

  • Wrap-up

Labs

Use (Laplante 2012) as a resource to help write good lab reports.

• Week 1

  • NO LABS in Week 1

• Week 2

  • Inspecting network traffic

    • Wireshark, Browser console

• Week 3

  • Utility tasks and Tools

  • Command Line Interfaces

• Week 4

  • Home/SOHO Router setup part 1

• Week 5

  • Home/SOHO Router setup part 2

• Week 6 - our labs will now use virtual equipment

  • Introduction to using GNS3 to create simulated networks

  • Duplicate the week 5 setup in the virtual environment

• Week 7 - Makeup week

  • No regular labs - makeups only

• Week 8 - Lab Exam

  • Skill test lab exercise

• Week 9 - VyOS and NAT

• Week 10 - DHCP using VyOS

• Week 11 - A network with multiple routers

• Week 12 - DNS

• Week 13 - Monitoring

• Week 14 - MakeUp Week

• Week 15 - Lab Final