The lecture podcasts are hosted here on skoda.net and you are more than welcome to get them right from my site. In a few hours, you can also subscribe to them off the iTunes music store. As new episodes get posted the feed will update iTunes and you’ll automatically download lectures. This is the link […]

The take home lab handout is now available in the Assignments area of Blackboard. I will not be in lab tonight or tomorrow night. I will be available and on campus, in the Green 111 lab on Thursday night. If you have questions about the lab or want to see me to talk about the […]

In episode 2 I cover the OSI model (ISO X.200) and I talk about layered protocol design.  I go through the book definition of the 7 layer model and try to relate it back to network devices.   The whole rest of the course is broken out along the layers.  This coming week we’ll be […]

The first lecture is now available.  A few of the items I covered that are not in the book are listed here in the “show notes”   RFCs and the IETF live at  www.ietf.org  Tiers of Internet service providers: 1, 2, and 3. Check out this link for a good formal definition: smartcomputing.com dictionary [podcast]http://www.skoda.net/podcast/cis2151-ep1.mp3[/podcast]

The plan is finally coming together for my podcast lectures and they will appear on the blackboard server on Monday night around 5PM. I’ve sorted out the microphone problems and collected the notes and retrieved my previous audio files.

Tonights lab is about Gnu Privacy guard. You’ll be generating your own key pair and sending various encrypted and digitally signed email messages. I’ll be doing a little lecture before the lab since this material is not covered sufficiently in the networking book. Don’t forget the read-ahead mentioned in an earlier post, that will turn […]

The next reading assignment is chapter 2, pages 39-68. Focus on the OSI networking model, you will see the seven layers in quizzes and tests. Earmark page 57, we’ll be working with IP and TCP headers a lot in later weeks. For homework, answer review questions 2.1 thru 2.3. There will be a quiz available […]

The assignment is to read chapter 1 and answer review questions 1.1, 1.2, and 1.8 on page 37. You can email your answers to me. This week we will be working on a lab to experience the size of the Internet using traceroute. I’d like to post assignments and links and things here versus having […]