CS640 Assignment 1: Routing Experiment

Due: November 17, 2011, In class

Description

The purpose of this laboratory experiment is to familiarize you with the operation of Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocols. This will involve examining a number of their configuration parameters and carrying out some performance tests. We will use the Junosphere virtual networks and routers for this lab.

Reading Material

The following reading material are suggested before you start working on the lab assignment to get you familiar with Junosphere.

• Overview of Junosphere. If you cannot open pptx files, here is a ppt version.
• Take some time looking through "Junos as a second language", which is available here. You need to register, but it is free. This is very useful to get you ready to work through the labs.
• A set of podcast videos are also available here.
• In addition, here is a list of sources that may be useful for learning more about JunOS. The material includes free self-study courses, pdf downloads etc.

Lab Description

We will use the following lab which was provided by the Queen Mary University: Lab Description. It includes the information about how you should connect to the Junosphere infrastructure.

Our assessment criteria is slightly different which we explain below.

Accessing the Network

We have 15 networks available and 27 groups. Thus, 2 groups will share the same network. We will assign each group a color, Blue or Red. Your group's color defines what times you can use the network assigned to your group. You can find the schedule here.

Send E-mail to Fatemah (fatemeh@cs.wisc.edu) with your group member's names to receive your group's color and credentials to access JunOSphere.

Assessment Criteria

Your hard copy report, to be submitted at the start of the class on the due date, should include:

• Answers to all questions asked in part1 – part 6.
• All results (in the numbered sections as Log x.y).

Grading

As you will notice, there are a lot of results that you need to submit and questions to answer. This assignment will be graded from a total of 50 points. Here is the grading criteria:

• You turned in your report with some results in it. 10 points
• Your report is clear and easy to read. Please mark each section number (Log x.y) using bold font such that it can be easily differentiated from normal text. 5 points
• I will randomly choose some number of results/questions to grade from each section. Each will receive the same number of points from a total of 35 points.