Course Outline

 

This course is a lab. The goal of the course is to reinforce some of the networking concepts that were taught in any introductory networking course. The lab is structured around exercises that highlight topics such as addressing, subnetting, bridging, ARP, routing (RIP, OSPF), TCP, ICMP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, etc. The course consists of 10 weeks of networking labs. In lab quizzes are used to evaluate the students’ understanding of the material and ensure that students have attempted the lab exercises in the class handouts. Students are required to review introductory networking material for each lab. 

 

Prerequisites: Introduction to Networking Course (a strict requirement!)

 

Class Notes: Available online on my website.

Software: Available via online public downloads.

Labs: Available online on my website.

 

Class Communication: Piazza Classroom - Students will be added to a classroom account. All  queries/questions related to labs and quizzes should be directed thru Piazza to the TA, Reader, myself and other students. Students are recommended highly to participate in the Piazza discussions. We will monitor activity and give credit (see grading below) to those that are vocal and have intelligent and coherent responses. Any fake or irresponsible participation will have a negative impact.

 

Class Time: Wednesday:  6:00pm – 8:50pm

Class Room:  ICS 174

 

Discussion Session: ICS 174 Monday 6pm - 7:20pm
Quiz Lab Rooms
: ICS  183, 189, 192 

 

TA:  Chenxing Ji, chenxij1@uci.edu, Siddhan Harasimhan, siddhan@uci.edu

Readers:

 

TA Office:
Chengxing Ji: Rm 3219
Siddhan Harasimhan: Rm ICS2 215

TA Office Hours:
Cehngxing Ji: Runs discussion session on Monday 6 - 7:20 for lab related questions. Bring your laptop

Siddhan Harasimhan: Friday 12-4pm

 

 

My coordinates: DBH 3216, elzarki@uci.edu

My office hours: Mon/Wed 2-3pm

 

Course Requirements:  2 In Lab Quizzes (20%, 35%), Final (40%), Piazza Participation (5% - - no grade for "Anonymous" participation)

 

 


 

Course Overview 

·       Course Overview - Lab0_W (Windows only) Lab0_M (Mac only) Lab 1 (all)

·       Single Segment Networks - Lab 2

Data Link Layer and ARP

IP Overview , IP Forwarding, IP Control Protocol (ICMP)

·       IP Dynamic Routing - Lab 4

Dynamic Routing

·       Lan Switching - Lab 5

LAN Switching

·       Transport Layer Protocols: Lab 6

UDP, TCP

NAT and DHCP