NETWORK PROJECT


Part A: Applications 20%

For one of the questions in part B, answer in a powerpoint presentation rather than in Word.  You will be graded on the design of your presentation and your use of Powerpoint to get your ideas across.  Remember that a presentation isn't just a document -- instead of paragraphs you should be breaking things up into lists, using smart art, using drawing objects, etc, and this will tend to make your presentation many slides long, since each slide only has a little bit of information on it.  You may illustrate with images taken from the internet if you include a reference for where they came from, but do NOT rely on the images to explain things for you.


Part B: Concepts 80%

Except as explained in part A, answer the following in a Word document  Your explanation should assume that the reader has not had this course and does not know the vocabulary, so you need to define terms or use more casual, less technical language to explain.  You may find that using word tools like smartArt, etc make it easier to explain. 

 

1. Playing an online game on my computer, I make a move including moving my character in a direction and having it attack. Explain step by step what happens so that the information about my move can be sent from the game on my computer to the main game program on the game server over the internet. Explain based on the internet model including what happens at each of the layers . You may choose to do this in chronological order, or in order by layer, but be sure to handle all steps (hint: some layers involve both sending and receiving).

 

2. Our classroom has many computers, all on the same LAN. Explain why we need NAT, how the LAN is set up so we can do NAT, what NAT does when data is sent from from our computers, and what NAT does when data is sent to our computers. data.

 

3. Assume www.hatwizards.com/products/tophat.html is a web page with text and three pictures, two of which are pictures of their own Hat Wizard products, the other is an ad for Frog Beds from www.frogbeds.com.

Describe the specific steps that would happen (on your computer and other machines on the internet) to get this specific page to show up in your browser. You may leave out the details of packets and routers involved in sending anything over the internet, but you should cover all the web-specific actions. Also state what information frogbeds.com and hatwizards.com have about you after this interaction.   (hint: these are not real web pages. Actually typing the URLs into your browser will give you nothing helpful in answering this question.)