B227 Data Communications

Tutorial Exercises

The following are links to exercises for tutorial sessions every week. New exercises will be put on as the semester progresses.

Weeks 3-6: Introduction to Linux

Internal students: the exercise sheets are available from your tutor during the tutorials.
External students: the instructions and exercises will be posted out to you along with the CD. Here is an RTF file with the exercises on it, if you want a preview.

Week 7: Introduction to Network Tools and other start up information

This link is a WORD document with instructions on what to do. Please download and print, before restarting the machine with LINUX. Follow the instructions.

Week 8: More Network Tools

This link is a WORD document with instructions. Please download and print, before restarting the machine with LINUX. Follow the instructions.

Week 9:

Due to the Easter break, half of the internal students have missed out on one tutorial. Those with Friday tutorials who missed out on week 8 can do the week 8 tutorial this week. Those with Tuesday tutorials will not have a tutorial in week 9. The rest can make familiarize more with the exercises and get on to do your assignment work. Your tutor will be available to assist you. External students with your dial-in working can try same if you wish - keep in mind that the LAN you will be working on is the one for your ISP, so some of the descriptions of network traffic may not be exactly as I have described in the exercises.

Week 10: The Routing Table

Please download and print the WORD document , before restarting the machine with LINUX. Follow the self-guiding instructions. Like all the previous exercises, some parts are based on the internal lab subnet (IP numbers, etc). External students will have to put in your equivalent values for your ISP's subnet (if possible).

Week 11: The Domain Name Service

Please download and print the WORD document , before restarting the machine with LINUX. Follow the self-guiding instructions. This tutorial involves involves a bit of reading. Please try and understand what is on the tutorial sheet. Ask your tutor if you are not sure.

Week 12: Some Important Networking Features

Please download and print the WORD document , before restarting the machine with LINUX. Like last week, this tutorial contains some description of networking concepts. Please try and understand what is on the tutorial sheet. Ask your tutor if you are not sure.

Week 13:

There will be no new exercises for the last week of semester. For internal students, your tutors will still be available in the labs, so you can make use of the time to catch up on the past tutorials which you missed, or haven't completely understood. You can also use the time to work on the project with your group, and seek advise from your tutor if you need to.