Computer Networks - CMSC 417, Spring 2000, Section 0101

Basic Information

Time: TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Location: CSS 2324
Instructor: Leana Golubchik, E-mail: leana@cs.umd.edu
Office: 4129 AVW, Office Hours: Tu 1:45pm - 2:45pm, Th 1:45pm - 2:45pm, or by appointment
TA: Kuo-Tung Kuo, E-mail: ktg@cs.umd.edu
Office: 1152 AVW, Office Hours: Wed 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Fri 1:00pm - 2:00pm, or by appointment

Class Resources

Course Description: required text books, topics covered, grading policies, etc.
Class accounts: UNIX accounts on the OIT (Office of Information Technology) UNIX cluster systems.
Class newsgroup: csd.cmsc417 on the nntp.cs.umd.edu newsserver.
Term project newsgroup: csd.cmsc417.term-project on the nntp.cs.umd.edu newsserver.
Sockets handout: Berkeley UNIX System Calls and Interprocess Communication by Lawrence Besaw.
Revised percentage allocation; as noted in the Course Description there is a 5% change in the percentage allocation.

News

5/11: Homework 4 solutions are now available (at the usual place).
5/11: The term project code (final submission) is due on May 20 at noon; no late submissions allowed.

5/9: Homework 5 has been assigned; it is due on Tuesday, May 16th, at the beginning of class.

5/3: Another small modification was made to the RFC; the new version is posted below, the change is briefly described here.

5/1: Percetage allocation (for the project and the course) have been posted above.
5/1: Homework 4 has been assigned; it is due on Tuesday, May 9th, at the beginning of class.

4/27: Another small modification was made to the RFC; the new version is posted below, the change is briefly described here.

4/26: The TA posted a new parser on the project newsgroup. It is also included below.
4/26: The updated RFC (based on the TA's comments during the last lecture) has been posted below. Please send email to me and the TA with problems.

4/21: Term project RFC has been posted (below). Watch this web page for possible corrections. Please send email to me and the TA with problems.
4/21: Group membership information for the term project has been posted below and on the term project newsgroup.

4/17: There will not be a term project meeting today, Mon, 4/17, as I was unable to schedule it with the other section. Since we are unable to meet with the other section, we will resolve whatever significant questions (if any) remain about the term project design in class on Tue, 4/18. Given that we will not meet today, I am extending the submission deadline until Wed, 4/19, noon.

4/14: Final exam will be on Monday, 5/22/00, 10:30 am-12:30 pm, in CSS 2324.

4/14: Final RFC guidelines and task assignments for the term project have been posted below (as discussed in class and posted on the term project newsgroup).

4/10: Reminder: If you haven't done so already, please post your RFC's (one per group) on the project newsgroup.

4/5: The deadline for submission of each group's RFCs has been extended till Sunday, April 9th, midnight. NOTE: please do NOT post your RFC's on the term project newsgroup until AFTER the deadline.

3/28: Term project description and outline have been re-posted below, as requested in class.

3/17: Term project description was posted on the class and the term project newsgroups. Please also read RFC 1459 which describes IRC, Internet Relay Chat, (as I mentioned in class).

3/14: Reminder: Midterm is on Thursday, March 30th.
3/14: Homework 3 has been assigned; it is due on Tuesday, March 28th, at the beginning of class (note that late policy does not apply due to the midterm).
3/14: Project 5 description has been posted. Note that the deadline is different from what I mentioned in class, i.e., it is March 27th, which is later than what I said in class.

3/9: Project 4's submitted by the original deadline will receive a 10% bonus, but only if they satisfy all project requirements.

3/6: Take a look at (today's) posting on the newsgroup regarding problem with function find_link.

3/5: The TA posted a message on the newsgroup regarding a change in the "-v command line argument"; please read.

3/2: Homework 2 has been posted and will be due on 3/14/2000 (beginning of class). Please see the homeworks page.

2/29: Project 4 description has been posted below. It is due on 3/9/2000 (midnight). Corresponding handouts will be posted soon.

2/24: Project 3 deadline has been extended to midnight on Monday, 2/28/2000. Projects submitted before the original deadline (midnight 2/25/200) will receive a 10% bonus.
2/24: Take a look at the news posting on Wed, 2/23, regarding a bug in db.c.

2/21: Homework 1 has been posted and will be due on 2/29/2000. Please see the homeworks page.

2/17: Project 3 description and corresponding handouts have been posted below.

2/13: Sample code for the project 1 client has been posted on the class newsgroup.

2/9: An update on the optional server hostname argument for Project 2 has been posted on the class newsgroup.
2/9: A modification has been made to the port assignment description in Project 2; please take a look.
2/9: Project 2 description is available below; project 2 is due on 2/16/2000 (before midnight).

2/6: Additional information for project 1 has been added to the project notes (regarding the difference between host byte order and network byte order); please take a look.

2/1: The client code template and the header file included in the Project 1 description have been modified (on Tue Feb 1 18:59:31 EST 2000); the client template code now includes a command line parser. Some additions were also made to the project notes. Please check the new versions.
2/1: Project 1 description is available below; project 1 is due on 2/9/2000 (before midnight).

1/24: You should obtain your account information (user ID and password) from the TA after the first lecture.

Projects

Homeworks