Learning Log for Data Networks: Week 10 and 11 (Capsa Free)

For the past 2 weeks, we had learned much information again about data networks that our professor said that it would take a 1 term to study but in our case, we would study it for maybe 3 weeks or so. In this minimal time, we had to gain much knowledge that we could because the finals is coming and I could feel that our final examination would be hard because I could see a bright smile in our professors face. Before I would go for the gained knowledge, I would tell you all about what happen in the late week 9, what happened is we are about to do the final project of our professor, which tells about a sniffing software given to each group. Our software was very simple and the user interface are very unique however, we are using the free version and the given free interfaces are very few. For me, I would want to know more about the software and sniff different kinds of module in that software. The free version really underlines the word free because it restricts us for every move we take and sometimes limits are action while using the software, but thank God we had finished the project and also I remember that +20 for the groups who would present in that week and the succeeding weeks will decrease by 5, and we had presented early and got a +15. With the use of the YouTube videos tackling our software, I have learned different kinds of the uses for the module that are enterprise based and could not be used in the free version and it made me understand deeper what am I doing with the software. Now let’s go back to the discussion, we had studied the Chapter 10 that our professor prepared and it tackles a review for connecting a router to a PC, the introduction to network layer, and some knowledge about internet data connectivity. I learned about Static Routing which uses a so called an ISP for a big connection, Dynamic Routing which contains many protocols that I don’t want to mention it all and many more. The most enjoyable topic that I can’t really much understand is the Static Routing wherein the connection is router to router which has the same time connectivity and same type of connection, we had some exercises about this using the Cisco packet tracer and thank you to my listening skills, I have learned this topic just after 2 meetings of our data networks subject. This kind of connection is really new to me because all I use when using the packet tracer is just cross and straight connection, and I don’t really this kind of connection that needs configurations for both routers.