Resources for students of Data Communications 2

Resources provided to students by the ACS

The following resources are available to students enrolled in the subject Data Communications 2.

The printed material will be mailed to students when the course begins.

The on-line material is available at URL http://www.ct.monash.edu.au/~cavram/cmacs/dc2/ some on-line material may be made available on CD-ROM and will be mailed to enrolled students. Some on-line material is only available to enrolled students. Those students will be given a user name and password to enable access.

The exam will be administered at an official exam center. Details will be provided to enrolled students by mail.

1. Print material
1. A brief subject guide
2. A reader (collection of articles)
3. A text book
2. On line resources
1. The DC2 web
1. Subject outline
2. Week by week study guide
1. Links to on-line reading
2. Links to on-line software
3. Exercises
4. Self assessment
2. On-line Tutoring
1. On-line assistance
2. On-line sample answers to the exercises
3. The exam

Resources provided by students

All students must have access to the following resources in order to complete the subject Data Communication 2.

1. Internet access at 14400 bit/s or better;
2. An Internet Email address;
3. A computer capable of running Netscape Navigator 3 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or later;
4. A second computer, an Intel based 486 or better computer with 16 MByte memory and a 200 MByte hard disk and Windows NT, Windows 95, FreeBSD or Linux installed. This computer will be used to install a secure world wide web server and to configure and test web security. Ideally this second computer and one other computer with Netscape Navigator 3 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or later will both reside on the same local area network.

Module 3, weeks 7, 8 and 9, involve an in depth study of global network management issues. In order to more easily understand some of the issues, especially security issues, students will be encouraged to install and configure some Internet servers such as secure web servers, certificate servers, proxy servers and even plain web servers.

For this purpose, a spare computer, as listed above, may be needed.

If there is sufficient demand in a particular location, and if funding can be found, your tutor may organise a 6 hour laboratory class as an alternative.