Homework 1 (Due 08/31)
Note: please TYPE your answer.
- 1) (10 pts) Problem 11 (page 82)
- 2) (20 pts) Obtain a copy of latest "Assigned Numbers" RFC
- Which RFC defines the "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)"?
- What is the status of this protocol?
- Find out when and where the next IETF meeting will take place? Who are the
area director and chair of MANET working group?
- 3) (30 pts) Use traceroute to:
- Acquire a path to website cn.yahoo.com, identify
where the delay bottleneck is?
- Acquire another path to website www.sohu.com, what
can you tell about the difference and similarity in terms of delay and
path they followed?
- By analyzing the path, can you guess the name of routers belong to
local ISP, regional ISP, and national ISP?
- Do the same experiment at different time of the day (morning, noon, evening) and
plot a chart to show how delay changes during different time of the
day.
- 4) (40 pts) Get to know network who's who. Write a no more than half-page essay (each person) on the major achievements of the following researcher:
- Vinton G. Cerf
- Robert M. Metcalfe
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Douglas E. Comer