TCOM 500: Modern Telecommunications Prof. B.-P. Paris Homework 1 Due: January 28, 2010
Reading
Forouzan: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Problems
Problem 2.22
Problem 2.25
Download and install Wireshark on your computer. Then capture the
packets between your computer and the server telecom.gmu.edu when
you’re retrieving the URL http://telecom.gmu.edu.
How many GET requests are issued by the client?
Go to www.traceroute.org and select an arbitrary host to run a
traceroute from. Run a traceroute to telecom.gmu.edu. For each
link that experiences more than 10 ms delay, try to determine
the physical location of the endpoints of that link (i.e., try to
determine the cities where the routers on either end of the link are
located).