Objectives: To build a network and include subnets within it. To configure the router(s) so all of the terminals can be connected and utilize the subnets.

Equipment list: Routers(3), crossover cable, cat5 cables, computers, downloaded a hyperterminal to configure the routers

 Notes and Observations: This proved to be a difficult …

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (paperback book)

“A Man of the Future,” The Times (Richmond, VA), October 21,1894, Page 2, Image 2, col. 1-4
“Strangest Man in New York,” The Salt Lake Herald (Salt Lake City, UT), June …

Objectives: To use Apache to set up web servers and connect with other computers in the classroom and to alter the document root so the homepage for the server can be different from the default.

Equipment list: Computer, apache software

Notes and Observations: Downloaded Apache and installed. …

Objectives: To capture packets using Wireshark and observe the different types of information the program presents depending on the activity being done while capturing.   Equipment list: laptop, wireshark program   Notes and Observations: This was hard to understand at first. It was interesting to see that TCP had sequence numbers and…

This week I learned about a program called Wireshark. It captures internet packet activity and provides information about what is sent and received while it is operating. There are different pieces of information provided depending on what activity you are doing. I looked at information sent and received when viewing/accessing …

Objectives: To configure a network of several computers using a switch, change the IP address of my workstation, and then to ping neighboring computers. Also, a goal was to configure a router.

 Equipment list: Switch, several workstations, router, UTP cables

 Notes and Observations: My group followed the lab and went …

If we already had the TCP/IP model, why was the more complicated OSI model created?
It allows for the development of communication layers with each layer providing its own specialized function within the structure. It became a way to standardize the rules of networking.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_main_reason_the_OSI_model_was_created

What does the abbreviation OSI …

Layer #

Layer Name

Mnemonic

Keywords & Description of Function

7

 Application

 Away

 datagrams, software layer,
network aware programs:
FTP, HTTP, email

6

 Presentation

 Pizza

 datagrams, software layer,
controls context between
application layer and lower
layers by using different
syntax and symantics

5

 Session

 Sausage

 datagrams, controls the
dialogue between …

This week I learned how to create ethernet cable using cabling and connectors. I initially did the first connection wrong, but my second attempt was successful and I got both ends hooked up correctly. When I tested the cable it passed, and I was pleased with my work. Seeing this …

This week I learned about the OSI model. I learned that there are seven layers within this model, what they are, and what each layer’s protocol data unit is. I find all of this confusing still, but I hope that over time it will become easier to understand. All the …

I didn’t do as well this week as I did in the first 2. I’ve had some issues locating the blogs of my classmates and I ran short on time to complete everything I would have liked to. I’m finding it hard to keep up working 4-5 days a week…

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This week I added the definition/term ‘range extender’ to the wikispaces glossary for Networking. I also posted a bookmark on Diigo to an interesting article about the superbowl ads. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/04/tech/web/tech-super-bowl-commercials/index.html

I learned about creating and posting a web page this week. I made 3 pages from scratch and changed a …

I am from…

I am from children’s toys
from musical instruments and Nintendo
I am from the small house
across from the playground
I am from the dandelions
The cottonwood tree
whose long gone limbs I remember
as if they were my own.

I’m from movies on Christmas eve and …