Practical Exercises in Networking

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Intended for use with Data and Computer Communications, by William Stallings and Computer Networking with Internet Protocols and Technology by William Stallings

The attached set of HTML pages provides a personal learning experience for students. The exercises naturally follow one another and build on the previous exercises. They do not, however, need to be attempted one after another. The four exercises may more easily be done on four separate occasions. The practical exercises are designed to help the student understand the operation of an Ethernet LAN and an IP network.

To conduct the practical session the student will require:

• Direct access to a computer connected to a Local Area Network using TCP/IP
• A UNIX workstation, ideally, or a PC running UNIX or a Mac with OSX
  • You may remotely access a UNIX workstation across a LAN via telnet from a PC/Mac
  • You may remotely access a UNIX workstation across a LAN using X-windows from a PC/Mac
  • Some (but not all of this can be done using only a PC with 95/98/2000/XP connected to a LAN)
• The ability to use a "terminal window" (or "command window" on a PC)
• A copy of this information or a WWW browser (e.g. Explorer or Netscape) to view the pages.
  
• About one hour of time (split into four exercises)

To use this material, download the set of HTML files and then make them available to your students on your local web site.