Network Activities

Homework Assignment

• Read Chapter 12 - Network Organization and Architecture in The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, Fourth Edition.
• Add your answers to this text document: Network_Homework.txt
• Submit your text document to the Network Homework 1 Dropbox in myCourses by schedule due date.

Select Network Topics

• ping -- test IP addresses
• ifconfig (ipconfig on Windows) -- show network adapters
• hostname -- get network name
• /etc/hosts -- on OpenBSD/UNIX/Linux -- list of IP address to hostnames
• /etc/protocols -- list of supported protocols (AKA ports)
• Wikipedia port numbers

Second Homework Assignment

• Create a text file called Network_Homework_2.txt
• On both a lab computer in a CMD window and on nitron capture the output from these commands. Be sure to identify which capture is for which computer. Use the numbering shown below:
1. What computer are you running on (e.g. RIT lab computer, nitron, my laptop off campus, etc.)
2. ping cnn.com
3. ping rit.edu
4. ifconfig (or ipconfig)
5. hostname
6. cat /etc/hosts (on nitron only)
7. cat /etc/protocols (on nitron only)
• For questions 2 through 5 compare the Windows and nitron results.
• For question 7 compare the protocols supported on nitron with the Wikipedia ports list.
• Submit to Network Homework 2 dropbox by the schedule due date.