Schedule

All dates are subject to change

Optional reading:

Date Class Topic Reading/Notes
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
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
Monday, September 21, 2020 Lab 3: Static Routing
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 ARP
CA.7 - ARP & Wireshark
Thursday, September 24, 2020 VLANs
CA.8 - VLANs & Wireshark
Monday, September 28, 2020 Lab 4: Dynamic Routing
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 ICMP
CA.9 - ICMP & Wireshark
Thursday, October 1, 2020 IPv6
CA.10 - IPv6 & Wireshark
Monday, October 5, 2020 Lab 5: Custom Subnets
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 DHCP
CA.11 - DHCP & Wireshark
Thursday, October 8, 2020 UDP
CA.12 - UDP & Wireshark
Monday, October 12, 2020 Lab 6: DHCP
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 Sockets
Thursday, October 15, 2020 HTTP
CA.13 - HTTP & Wireshark
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
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
Thursday, November 5, 2020 TCP, Part 2
CA.15 - TCP & Wireshark
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
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