Post-Lab Questions

Please enter the answers to these questions into your lab notebook.

1. Describe what happens when you begin an experiment in Schooner (assume you already have a configuration).

2. What capabilities are available in Schooner for specifying link characteristics? Are these realistic (why or why not)? Would any other link characteristics be useful?

3. If after starting an experiment in Schooner, you access a project machine and change the configuration of eth0, how would this affect your experiment?

4. Give an example of when you would choose to use copper wiring over optical fiber, and vice versa. Explain your reasoning.

5. If in the hardware component of the lab you had been asked to configure a simple 2 node network that consisted of one Windows machine and one Linux machine, would you have had to do anything different to the switch configuration - explain your answer?