AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER STUDIES AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY

Course Syllabus:

16 Week-Sections NETWORKING with TCP/IP FALL 2026 Synonym 17377

Instructor:·        Professor Femi Onabajo

Office Phone:   512 223-0186

Office:                      RRC 512.2232.24 / fonabajo@austincc.edu

Office Hours:    TTH 9:00-10:45

Others·bYAppointment

E-mail: Web Sites:

Sections:

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Online /16 Weeks/ Synonym 17377

1. Text:      NETWORKING GUIDE TO TCP/P 3RDEDITION

                          BY:         By Laura A. Chappelll & Ed Tittel   ISBN -13#:           978-1-4188-3755-6     

                                                                                                  ISBN-10#:            1-488-3755-5

Tentative Schedule

                                Week     Date                       Chap      Topic

                                    1              Aug     27-31           0            General Introduction

       2.             Sep      03-07           1            Introduction To TCP/IP

       3.                           10-14           2            IP Addressing /Others

                                    4.                         17-21           3            Data Link & Network Layer TCP/IP Protocols

       5.                         24-28           4            Internet Control Message Protocols (ICMP)

                                    6.             Oct      01-05         5              Transport Layer TCP/IP Protocols

       7.                         08-12           6            Basic TCP/IP Services  / Review Exam #1

       8.                         15-19           0            Exam #1

      9                           22-26           7            Domain Name System (DNS)

     10.                        29-02           8            The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

                                  11.           Nov      05-09          9            Securing TCP/IP Environment

                                12.                          12-16        10             Routing in the IP Environment                                        

                                13.                          19-23        11/12       Monitoring and Managing IP Networks /TCP/IP,                                                                                                         NetBIOS /WINS

                                14.                          26-30         13            Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) / Review Exam #2

   15.                Dec     03-07           0            Exam #2

                                16.                           10-14           0            End of Semester activities

                                Lab Dates:            Weekly

                                  Exam Dates:        Exam #1                               October                  18

                                                                Exam #2                               December              06

After the completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand TCP/IP’s origins, history and internal networking model
• Explain the process by which TCP/IP standards and other document called Request for Comments(RFC), are created, debated and formalized
• Understand TCP/IP protocols, sockets, ports, and data encapsulated
• Understand IP addressing, anatomy and structures, and IP classes A-E
• Define the term subnet, super net and how they work to solve problems
• Understand the role of Data Link Protocols such as SLIP, PPP play with TCP/IP
• Appreciate the overwhelming importance of IP and how packets behave on TCP/IP network. Also the process of fragmentation and reassembly
• Understand the Internet Control Message protocol.
• Test and troubleshoot sequences for ICMP
• Understand the key feature and functions of the User Datagram protocol (UDP) and how to choose between UDP and TCP
• Explain the capabilities, message types, and request / reply architectures for basic TCP/IP services, including FTP, Telnet, SMTP and HTTP
• Understand the operations of other basic TCP/IP services, including Echo, Quote of the Day, Chargen, WHOis, TFTP, Finger, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), NetBIOS services over TCP/IP and SNMP
• Understand the history of DNS, types of services that DNS provides, type of roles that DNS server can play on a network, and DNS database structure
• Explain how DNS queries and responses work, and  how they handle name resolution, DNS record lookups, zone data transfers and reverse DNS query
• Understand the services of DHCP, history, origins, leases and describe basic software components that permit DHCP to function
• Describe DHCP relay agent communication
• Understand the anatomy of an IP attack including the reconnaissance and discovery processes.
• Understand the new improved security feature in Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003
• Understand how basic routing works, how routing tables help control the behavior and the various types of routing protocols including distance vector and link-state protocols
• Understand RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and other routing protocols
• Explain basic routing diagnostic troubleshooting concepts, tools, and techniques
• Understand the basic principles and practices involved in managing modern networks
• Understand the role of NetBIOS in windows 2000 and higher operating system
• Trouble shooting WINS and NetBIOS errors with commonly used tools
• Understand the limitations of IPv4 and how the creation of IPv6 can overcome them
• Discuss new and enhanced IPv6 features such as auto configuration, security, quality of service and Mobile IP
• Understand the impediments involved in transitioning to IPv4 to IPv6