ICS 156: Networking Lab.

Prof. Magda El Zarki

Dept. of ICS

University of California, Irvine

elzarki@uci.edu

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~magda

Introduction to ICS 156 and Lab Rules

The ICS 156 course introduces the students to some basic TCP/IP networking technology in a set of lectures and laboratory experiments.

Throughout all the laboratory sessions, students should adhere to the following:

· Work in groups of max. size 3. Indicate in your lab report for the week who was in your group.

· We may institute a sign up policy if necessary for lab work ->

· Sign up for a lab slot during the class session at the beginning of the week (or by sending email to Prof. El Zarki). If you need to change it, let Prof. El Zarki know asap. The lab Schedule will be posted on the web each week, changes will be entered asap.

· Adhere to your allotted slot time and leave the lab promptly when your time is up and the next group shows up. If you need another slot to complete your work, contact Prof. El Zarki promptly.

· Read the Announcements web page regularly for any news or important information regarding the course.

· All the PCs and routers are not connected to the campus network.

· You will always login as root. Login name: root, passwd: rootroot

· Always disconnect all the cables when you are done and place in a neat pile on the table by the routers including all BNC connectors.

· Always check PC and router/bridge configurations, make no assumptions as to their set-up. Prior groups may have made changes that do not comply with the experiment you are conducting. Best policy is to reboot all the equipment.

· You should read all pertinent chapters and bring the textbook, lab notes and a 3.5î floppy disk to each session of the laboratory.

· All reports are due one week after your lab assignment (beginning of class). Attach to you lab report the completed Prelab Questions and hand in the feedback sheet.

· Each student in a group must submit his/her own laboratory report. Remember, for each week of labs, indicate on your laboratory report who your partners were for that week's labs.

· The laboratory report should be word-processed. A handwritten report will not be graded. However, some minor handwritten corrections are allowed.

· In the lab notes we use two icons: one of a floppy disk to indicate that you need to save the outputs to some external media (floppy) for later use or to include in the lab report, the other icon denotes a writing tablet, it indicates what needs to be reported in your lab report.

· Keep all the data you saved, even after you submit your laboratory report. You might need the output data for writing future laboratory reports.

· Do not include unnecessary data that has no direct bearing on the answer in your report. Submit your output data only if it is required. The data you recorded during the lab session might contain data irrelevant to your lab report. It is important to sort the relevant part from the output data you saved in the lab. If a report contains the data which has no relevance, the grade could be reduced.

· Do not turn off your PC. If there is a problem with a system, try to reboot, if that does not work, ask the lab TA.

· If you need to know the exact expression for a certain command, always refer to the manual page for the command.

This laboratory manual is not intended to be a complete description of all the topics covered in the lab exercises. We mainly give an explanation on subjects not covered in the textbook. Therefore, students should refer to the textbook for reference material on experiments.