Some homework for next class

A given computer has the IP address 10.10.9.10/23. Please answer the following questions:

1. What is the network address? 
2. Provide an expression to obtain it.
3. What is the broadcast address?
4. Provide an expression to obtain it.
5. Does the address 10.10.8.27 belongs to the same network? And 10.10.10.27?
6. What are the subnets obtained when you split the network from question 1 into two equal-size subnets? Please indicate the maximum number of hosts each one of them may have.

Have a look at Network Address Translation (in  4.4) and sections 4.4.3, 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. See you on Friday.

Friday's class

We continue with Network Layer, we will cover sections 4.4.1 & 4.4.2 of Kurose's book after finishing some details about call setup in virtual circuit networks.

... and we are back.

I've uploaded the slides of book's chapters 4 & 5. According to our plan, we start now with the Network Layer to continue with Link Layer next.

For these week's classes you can have a look at sections 4.1 & 4.2. We will complely skip section 4.3.

Please remember we will have lectures this week on Wednesday and Friday at 9:00am both days.