Practical Course Networking Lab (Summer 2018)

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.

NET Teaching Lab where this course takes place.


Details

Workload/ECTS Credits: 180h, 6 ECTS
Module: B.Inf.802/803/804: Fachpraktikum I/II/III
Lecturer: Mayutan Arumaithurai
Teaching assistant: Jacopo De BenedettoSameer Kulkarni, Abhinandan S Prasad
Time: organizational meeting - April 10, 12:00-13:00
Place: IfI 0.101
Links: univz studip


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 in studip

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 2018
Timeslot Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Morning Slot (10:00-13:00) Jonathan Decker and Andrej Liebert Daniel González Marx and Christian Parchem Daniel Thewes and Simon Steuernagel Hong Yuan Chen and Elias Bömeke RESERVED
Afternoon Slot (14:00-17:00) Linus Weber and Jonatan Crystall RESERVED RESERVED NN RESERVED

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.