CS421_Fall2010
Section-2 Additional Material and Announcements

Announcements

  • 17.01.2011: The grades are uploaded to the SAPS systems. Please check your grades there.
  • 17.01.2011: Final exam grades posted.
  • 21.12.2010: Quiz 11 grades posted.
  • 20.12.2010: Midterm grades posted. See below (Midterm Grades).
  • 01.12.2010: Quiz 10 grades posted.
  • 26.11.2010: Quiz 9 grades posted.
  • 01.11.2010: The classroom for the extra lecture on Nov 2 Tuesday will be Room EB203. Note that it is a different room that our usual room.
  • 29.10.2010: We will have an extra lecture on Tuesday Nov 2 2010 at 15:40-19:30. We need to cover and finish chapter 3 this week. The whole chapter will be included in the midterm. You are highly suggested to read/study/digest the chapter 3 concurrently while we are covering it in the class.
  • 20.10.2010: As stated earlier, all Friday lectures will start at 8:40.
  • 20.10.2010: tcpdump is another packet capture tool that you can use in Linux systems. In class we used that while seeing the packets exchanged over the network when we run the simple client-server application described in the textbook. tcpdump a is command-line tool with a text based interface. The command line version of wireshark is tshark. If you want to run a packet capture tool in command-line, you can use either tcpdump or tshark. Using packet capture tools is extremely valuable in networking.
  • 19.10.2010: Quiz 3 grades posted.
  • 15.10.2010: You can try the dig and nslookup commands to query DNS system. In class, we used the dig command in Linux.
  • 12.10.2010: Quiz 2 grades posted.
  • 06.10.2010: For each student, the worst quiz grade for the student will not be counted in computing the overall quiz average.
  • 05.10.2010: Download and install the wireshark sniffer program to your Windows or Linux machine. Do some reading about it and try to understand what you can do with it.
  • 05.10.2010: Try traceroute program from your Windows or Linux machine. In Windows it is tracert. Visit also www.traceroute.org and see what you can do there. Exercise.
  • 05.10.2010: Try out the applets at the companian site. First try chapter 1 related applets.
  • 05.10.2010: The textbook has a very useful companian website for students. Make sure you try to benefit from there.
    http://wps.aw.com/aw_kurose_network_5/111/28536/7305312.cw/index.html
  • 04.10.2010: Section-2 Quiz 1 grades posted. See below.

Section-2 Grades

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