Assignment No. 01
Semester Spring 2012
Computer Networks – CS610
Total Marks: 15
Due Date:17 April 2012
Assignment:
Q.1. As you know that Tracer route is a network utility program to check the status of specific system on network, you are required to find the route of www.yahoo.com by using tracer route command explain all output provided by trace route command. [10 Marks]
Q.2. You have been asked to wire a conference room with seven computers for a demonstration after a day. It needs to be done quickly and with lowest possible expenses. What network topology is best suited to this situation and why? Justify your answer with solid reasons? [5 Marks]
Follow these steps and instructions for question 1.
First make sure that your system is connected to the internet.
Open a Windows start menu then click Run. Start > Run. Type cmd and click OK. If you have window 7 or vista, just go to search option in start menu and enter cmd. The command prompt will be opened. See snapshot 1.After that you can apply trace rout command.
Snapshot 1 on Next Page for Opening the CMD:
idea Solution:
Goto RUN >type “cmd”> in cmd window type “tracert yahoo.com”
wait some time for Trace complete.
when your traceroute completed, theb right click anywhere in the cmd screen > click on Select All > Press ctrl+c (all result will be copied) > Paste in your .doc file and then try to explain these by first read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute will help you…
When you run Traceroute, it gives you a simple report back from each “hop” it takes on the journey. A report might look like this:
3 int1-s1-0.dlls.tx.verio.net (219.5.892.521) 1.810 ms 1.795 ms 1.828 ms
This report tells us three things:
It is the third “hop” between your computer and the destination.
The location of the third hop is a router with the IP adress of 219.5.892.521.
Also provided is the name of that router
The three “packets” of information sent to that router from the second hop each arrived between 1.7 and 1.9 milliseconds (a millisecond, or “ms,” is one-thousandth of a second. Anything under 5 ms indicates a good connection. Over 60 ms suggest problems with the network.
The elements of the report may be in a different order depending on the program used for the traceroute, but they will always contain this information.
