Schedule
All dates are subject to change
Optional reading:
- An Introduction to Computer Networks (AICN) by Peter L Doral
- Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice by Olivier Bonaventure
| Date | Class Topic | Reading/Notes |
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| Monday, August 24, 2020 | No Lab - First meeting will be Tuesday class period | |
| Tuesday, August 25, 2020 | Welcome | |
| Thursday, August 27, 2020 | Overview of Computer Networking | |
| Monday, August 31, 2020 | Lab 1: Introduction & GNS3 Setup | |
| Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | Packet Sniffing & Wireshark CA.1 - Introducing Wireshark |
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| Thursday, September 3, 2020 | Ethernet CA.2 - Ethernet & Wireshark |
AICN: Chapter 2 (intro), 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 Last Day to Withdraw without a 'W' (Sept 4th) |
| Monday, September 7, 2020 | No Class - Labor Day Holiday | |
| Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | WiFi CA.3 - WiFi & Wireshark |
AICN: 4 intro, 4.1, 4.2 |
| Thursday, September 10, 2020 | IPv4, Part 1 CA.4 - IPv4 & Wireshark |
AICN: Chapter 9 (intro), 9.1, 9.2 |
| Monday, September 14, 2020 | Lab 2: Intro to RouterOS | |
| Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | IPv4, Part 2 CA.5 - IP Addresses and Subnets |
AICN: Chapter 9.3, 9.5, 9.6 |
| Thursday, September 17, 2020 | Scapy CA.6 - Scapy |
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| Monday, September 21, 2020 | Lab 3: Static Routing | |
| Tuesday, September 22, 2020 | ARP CA.7 - ARP & Wireshark |
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| Thursday, September 24, 2020 | VLANs CA.8 - VLANs & Wireshark |
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| Monday, September 28, 2020 | Lab 4: Dynamic Routing | |
| Tuesday, September 29, 2020 | ICMP CA.9 - ICMP & Wireshark |
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| Thursday, October 1, 2020 | IPv6 CA.10 - IPv6 & Wireshark |
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| Monday, October 5, 2020 | Lab 5: Custom Subnets | |
| Tuesday, October 6, 2020 | DHCP CA.11 - DHCP & Wireshark |
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| Thursday, October 8, 2020 | UDP CA.12 - UDP & Wireshark |
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| Monday, October 12, 2020 | Lab 6: DHCP | |
| Tuesday, October 13, 2020 | Sockets | |
| Thursday, October 15, 2020 | HTTP CA.13 - HTTP & Wireshark |
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| Monday, October 19, 2020 | Lab 7: VLANs | |
| Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | Project 3 - Discussion, Demo, Getting Started | |
| Thursday, October 22, 2020 | Network Address Translation CA.14 - NAT & Wireshark |
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| Monday, October 26, 2020 | Lab 8: Firewalls | |
| Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | Project Work Day | |
| Thursday, October 29, 2020 | Parallel Network Programming Project 4 - Discussion |
Last Day to Withdraw |
| Monday, November 2, 2020 | Lab 9: Network Address Translation | |
| Tuesday, November 3, 2020 | TCP, Part 1 CA.14 - TCP & Wireshark |
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| Thursday, November 5, 2020 | TCP, Part 2 CA.15 - TCP & Wireshark |
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| Monday, November 9, 2020 | Lab 10: GRE and OSPF | |
| Tuesday, November 10, 2020 | TCP, Part 3 | |
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 | TCP, Part 4 | |
| Monday, November 16, 2020 | Lab 11: IPv6 | |
| Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | Project Work Day | |
| Thursday, November 19, 2020 | Network Scanning & Nmap Project 5 - Discussion |
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| Monday, November 23, 2020 | No Lab | |
| Tuesday, November 24, 2020 | Project Work Day | |
| Thursday, November 26, 2020 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break | |
| Monday, November 30, 2020 | Lab 12: OpenFlow | |
| Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | DNS (+DNSSEC, DNSTOLS, DOH) | |
| Thursday, December 3, 2020 | HTTP/2 (and SPDY), HTTP/3 (and QUIC) | Last Day of Class |