Computer Networks and Internet Technology

The story of success

lecturer

Aleksandar Dimitrijević

Main goals

Computer networks fundamentals

LAN configuration wired wireless

Connect LAN to Internet

Course organization 6 topics divided into 9 lessons

Introduction to computer networks Reference models Network protocols ( I & II part ) Routing LAN devices and configuration ( I & II part ) WAN devices ( I & II part )

On-site activities (quizzes, forums, wiki-dictionary)

6 lab. exercises

final test

Introduction to computer networks

Importance of computer networks

Various computer networks classifications

Layered organization of netwok protocols

Reference models

OSI reference model

TCP/IP reference model

Data encapsulation

Network protocols - I part

Network protocols

The main protocols of TCP/IP suite Network access layer Internet layer

Configuration

Network protocols - II part

The main protocols of TCP/IP suite Transport layer (UDP, TCP) Application layer (DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3,

HTTP)

Protocols configuration in MS Windows

Routing

Routers and routing

Main functionality routing filtering (access-control)

LAN devices and configuration - I part

Host checking

Ethernet cabels

LAN network devices Hub Switch Wireless Access Point / Router

LAN devices and configuration - II part

Network management in Windows Vista network address configuration working groups folder sharing user accounts creation

Wireless LANs ad-hoc and infrastructure WLANs

Troubleshooting

WAN devices - I part

WAN physical layer

PPP protocol

Dial-up modem and ISDN Dial-up configuration in Windows XP

WAN devices - II part

DSL (ADSL, topoligy, modem instalation)

Cabel-modem

How to connect LAN to Internet

Material on the Web

Lab. exercises

Lab.1 – WireShark

Lab.2 – PacketTracer

Lab.3 – LAN configuration

Lab.4 – E-mail

Lab.5 – Transport layer protocols

Lab.6 – DSL configuration

Lab.1 - WireShark

Lab.2 - PacketTracer

Lab.3 - LAN configuration

Lab.4 - E-mail

Lab.5 – Transport layer protocols

Lab.6 – DSL configuration

Statistics

142 enrolled

130 take part in education

128 successfully finished – 98.5% 9 did not take part in e-learning – 7%

Final test average score – 75% max. num. of points – 11% >= half points – 90%

Real indicators of success

Recognition of a teacher from secondary school that taught children for years about networks (she admited she was not sure if her lectures were correct) that our lectures clarified everything. Furthermore, she was so exicited that she wish to be enrolled in Cisco Networking Academy for further education (this can be read in her post on the forum).

Real indicators of success

A number of teachers request to collect all the material from the course in pdf-textbook that will be used for their purposes (numerious posts on the forum)

Requests for the rights to teach students with our material and to place it on their web sites

Real indicators of success

Recognition that this was a serious course - collected and printed material reaches more than 250 pages! Other vocational training required of them to read only about 20-pages.

A few days before the test, especially the night before the test, activity on the site even after midnight

Real indicators of success

Real indicators of success

Real indicators of success

Many approvals after the course was over especially from teachers of network-related subjects.