Class Information

ITS 577 Internet Operations - Winter 2008/2009


Class Meetings: Thu 1-2 pm Stocker 187
Final Exam Time: Wednesday, March 18, at 12:20 p.m.

Dr. Hans Kruse, N292 Lindley Hall

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Instructions for the Term Paper

The text of the paper should be about 5 pages using 11pt font with 1.5 line spacing and reasonable margins. Use a separate page for your bibliography. Do not add a title page. Put your name in the header area of the first page. Make sure your paper starts with a title and an abstract of no more than 1/3 of a page.
Guard against plagiarism: Do not cut and paste text. If you really think you need to use text verbatim, you must quote the entire copied text. Reference your bibliography anytime you directly use information from one of your sources. If you copy and paste a diagram, place the notation "Diagram from xxx" into the figure caption, where xxx is the reference to your bibliography.
Bring your paper to my office by 2:20pm, March 18 (end of the Exam time), or, send me an electronic copy by noon on March 18. I will acknowledge receipt by 2:20pm, it is your responsibility to insure that your paper did reach me.

Course Content

Subject to change...
Week of Class Readings
1
1/8		 Overview:
Structure of the Internet		 Internet Connectivity Graph
2
1/15		 Technical and policy issues in IP address allocation
  • Andre : RFC2050 INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES
  • RFC3194 The Host-Density Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency: An update on the H ratio
3
1/22		 DNS maintenance protocols DNS and BIND, 5th Edition by Paul Albitz andCricket Liu, Sections 10.1 to 10.4
on O'Reilly's Safari Site
Greg: Section 10.2
4
1/29		 IPsec and Virtual Private Networks VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNs, and IPsec by Jon C. Snader, on Safari Books online
Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 9.2,
Merlita: 10.2 - 10.4
5
2/5		 BGP (Exterior Routing Protocols)
  • William: RFC2519 : A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation. E. Chen, J. Stewart. February 1999.
  • Boxing: RFC1771 : A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4). Y. Rekhter, T. Li. March 1995; Section 1, 2, 3, and 5.
6
2/12		 Network Renumbering Brad: RFC 2071
and RFC 2072, Sections 1-3, 6, 9
7
2/19		 No Class
8
2/26		 Network Monitoring Wendell: The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Thomas A. Limoncelli; Christina J. Hogan; and Strata R. Chalup
Chapter 22
9
3/5		 Mobile IP Rodrigo: RFC 3220, sections 1.1 to 1.7,
RFC 3775, sections 1 and 2
10
3/12		 Network Access Control NetReg Documentation, Section 1 (and skim section 5)
Han: Network Computing: Tutorial on Network Access Control
Exams
3/18		 Term Paper due Wednesday
Noon for electronic submission
2:20pm for paper copies