TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach

This repository includes the exercises in the textbook TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach, adapted to use the GENI testbed rather than an in-house lab.

Table of contents

Set up your lab account

• 0.0 Prepare your workstation
• 0.1 Set up an account on GENI
• 0.2 Reserve a simple network on GENI
• 0.3 Inspect network interfaces
• 0.4 Working on remote hosts
• 0.5 Save data and delete resources on GENI

Linux

• 1.1 Learning the basics of the Bash shell
• 1.2 Navigating the filesystem
• 1.3 Working with files and directories
• 1.4 Manipulating output of a command
• 1.5 Using tcpdump and Wireshark
• Optional extra experiment: TCP/IP protocol layers

A single segment network

• 2.6 Network interface exercises
• 2.7 ARP exercises
• 2.9 Exercises with IP address and subnet mask
• 2.8 Exercise with ICMP and Ping

Bridges and LANs

• Operation of a basic Ethernet switch or bridge
• 3.5 A simple bridge experiment
• Spanning tree protocol

Static and dynamic routing

• 4.5 A simple router experiment
• 4.6 RIP expercises
• 4.7 Routing experiments with ICMP
• Optional extra experiment: Designing subnets
• Optional extra experiment: Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm

UDP and its applications

• 5.5 Using iperf3
• 5.6 UDP Exercises with Datagram Sizes
• 5.8 Exercises with FTP and TFTP
• UDP as a connectionless transport protocol

TCP study

• 6.7 Exercises on TCP connection control
• 6.8 Exercises on TCP interactive data flow
• 6.9 Exercises on TCP bulk data flow
• 6.10 Exercises on TCP timers and retransmission
• 6.11 Other TCP exercises
• Optional extra experiment: TCP congestion control basics

Multicast and realtime service

• 7.4 Simple multicast exercise

The Web, DHCP, NTP and NAT

• 8.7 HTTP exercises
• 8.9 NTP exercises
• Optional extra experiment: Basic home gateway services: DHCP, DNS, NAT

Network management and security

• 9.9 SNMP exercises
• 9.10 Exercises on secure applications
• 9.12 Exercises on firewalls
• Optional extra experiment: DNS spoofing on a LAN