Introduction and Lab Rules

Throughout all the laboratory sessions, students should adhere to the following:

• Work in groups of max. size 3.  All group members must be  listed on lab report cover. Group composition may change from lab to lab.
• Read the Announcements web page regularly for any news or important information regarding the course.
• All the PCs and routers are not connected to the campus network.
• You will always login as root. Login name: root    passwd: rootroot
• Always disconnect all the cables when you are done and place in a neat pile on the table by the routers including all BNC connectors.
• Always check PC and router/bridge configurations, make no assumptions as to their set-up. Prior groups may have made changes that do not comply with the experiment you are conducting. Best policy is to reboot all the equipment.
• You should read all pertinent chapters and bring the textbook, lab notes and a storage media to each session of the laboratory.
• All reports are due on day listed in the lab schedule before 3pm. Attach to your lab report the completed Prelab Questions and the feedback sheet. Lab reports maybe be handed in on a CD or other digital storage media.  Electronic submissions must be in  MS Word format.
• In the lab notes we use two icons: one of a floppy disk to indicate that you need to save the outputs to some external media for later use or to include in the lab report, the other icon denotes a writing tablet, it indicates what needs to be reported in your lab report.
• Keep all the data you saved, even after you submit your laboratory report. You might need the output data for writing future laboratory reports.
• Do not include unnecessary data that has no direct bearing on the answer in your report. Submit your output data only if it is required. The data you recorded during the lab session might contain data irrelevant to your lab report. It is important to sort the relevant part from the output data you saved in the lab. If a report contains data which has no relevance you risk losing some points.
• Do not turn off the PCs. If there is a problem with a system, try to reboot, if that does not work, ask the lab TA.
• If you need to know the exact expression for a certain command, always refer to the manual page on the PC for the command.