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 on Monday covering the material in chapter 1.

Next week’s lab is a departure from the book a little, you’ll want to skim through the web site http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html to learn about Gnu Privacy Guard and public key/private key encryption. I like to sign all official emails to students, so it’s important to get a good working knowledge of gpg.

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 to make two identical posts on Blackboard, please vote in the poll to voice how you feel about that, I’m hoping that most students won’t care about which site they need to visit in order to get the course materials, but I could be wrong.

The semester starts tomorrow. I’ll be spending today getting blackboard ready and preparing for my first lab. Now I just have to make sure I’ve got appropriate civilian attire cleaned and ready to go.