Practical Course Networking Lab (Summer 2017)

Note: The examination will be held on 8th August at 15:00 in 3.101.

NET Teaching Lab where this course takes place.

This course offers students a hands-on approach to computer networking. The students are given practical tasks from the area of computer networks which they have to solve in a small team. The course aims to familiarize the students with practical issues of computer network setup, configuration, operation and maintenance.

Details

Workload/ECTS Credits:	180h, 6 ECTS
Module:	B.Inf.802/803/804: Fachpraktikum I/II/III
Lecturer:	Mayutan Arumaithurai
Teaching assistant:	Sameer Kulkarni, Abhinandan S Prasad, Sripriya Srikant Adhatarao
Time:	organizational meeting - April 21, 12:00-14:00
Place:	IfI 3.101
UniVZ	[1]

Prerequisites

This course requires fair overall knowledge of networking protocols. The exercises will be done using the Linux operating system and Cisco routers.

It is recommended to have attended the following courses prior to taking this one:

• Computer Networks

Organization and Examination

Informational meeting

An introduction to the lab course, including a tour of the actual lab will be given in the organizational meeting. Please see the table above for the date, time and room.

Lab teams

The students will conduct the practical course in small teams. A team normally consist of 2 students. If you miss a team member, you can come to the introductionary meeting look for a team mate there.

Course Mailing List

Please subscribe to Course mailing list by subscribing to [2]

Weekly exercises and written reports

The course consists of weekly exercises related to computer networks. Each team is expected to complete those exercises and compile a short written report every week.

Passing requirements

Note: Don't forget to officially register for the the course in flexnow, else you won't get your grades.

• Complete all the labs and submit the lab report on time. For a report to be acceptable, a reasonably complete answer to each question is expected.
• Participate in a final personal-meeting/feedback-round with Professor.

Lab Slots

Each team has one weekday reserved, for ten weeks, from mid April onwards. To register a team, send an email to Sameer "sameer.kulkarni@informatik.uni-goettingen.de" with the preferred day and the name, student number and email address of the team members.

Note: Don't forget to officially register for the the course in flexnow, else you won't get your grades.

Summer Semester 2017
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
Erik Peters and Peter Mailaender (~10:00 AM)	Fabiola Buschendorf and Vanessa Steiner (~11:30 AM)	Tobais Mueller and Philip Klostermeyer (09/11:00 AM)	Simon Kiefhaber and Hendrik Mehrtens (~10:30 AM)	Thomas Pach and Jan Tristan (09/11:00 AM)
--	--	Nellie Reichuann and Lukas Mayer (09/11:00 AM)	--	Nellie Reichuann and Lukas Mayer (09/11:00 AM)

Lab Slots during the semester break

This semester, we won't be having any block courses at the end of the semester. Please wait till the beginning of the next semester for more slots.

Course Materials

The course is based on the book "Mastering Networks - An Internet Lab Manual" by Jörg Liebeherr and Magda El Zarki. http://www.tcpip-lab.net/

You find all the relevant course material in the Networking Lab Wiki.