CMP410 – Data Communications and Networks

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Welcome to the Course page for CMP410 – Data Communications and Networks, a course designed to introduce you the fundamentals of Communication network technologies. This course page will contain Notes, Practical materials, links to relevant resources as related to the CMP410 Course.

Network Template (No Routing Protocol enabled)

CMP410 Network Template

Static Routes – 08/05/2013

Static Routes (PowerPoint)

Static Routes (Packet Tracer – FIXED) Note!!!: I have modified Router 2 (R2) by replacing the HWIC-4ESW interface with WIC-1ENET.

Routing Information Protocol (RIP) – 15/05/2013

RIPv1 (PowerPoint)

RIPv1 (Packet Tracer)

CMP206 – Introduction to Data Communication and Networks

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Welcome to the Course page for CMP206 – Introduction to Data Communication and Networks, a course designed to introduce you the fundamentals of network communication technologies. This course page will contain Lecture Slides, Laboratory Guides, Notes, links to relevant resources as related to the CMP206 Course.

Just to remind you also, the theory will be taken by me (Mfawa Alfred Onen) and practicals will be conducted by Mr. Samuel Ubaru and Mr. Sule Suki.

NOTE: Please do not hesitate to contact any of us if you have questions regarding the course.

Lecture Materials

Data Communication and Networking – Lecture 1 (Note!!!: This Material is Copyrighted, so do not redistribute outside this Course)

LAB Guides

Data Communication and Networking – LAB Guide 1

Data Communication and Networking – LAB Guide 2

Software Tools

Cisco Packet Tracer (Note!!!: This Software is a property of Cisco Systems, do not redistribute outside this Course)

CoovaChilli Setup on CentOS 6

Written by Mfawa Alfred Onen on . Posted in Linux, Networking

Following the recent YFi Hotspot Manager Screencasts, we continue by setting up the CoovaChilli captive portal software on CentOS 6.  The video assumes you have followed the YFi Hotspot Manager procedure outline in the previous Screencast. Also I pointed out some minor tweaks made to correct to errors when creating the CoovaChilli RPM.

Let me know what you think in the comments. Cheers!

Downloads

CoovaChilli SRPM

Note: Download and Unzip the file to use coova-chilli-1.3.0-1.src.rpm

Video

All Hail the new RadiusDesk

Written by Mfawa Alfred Onen on . Posted in Linux, Networking

So not so long ago, I posted a video of a powerful FreeRADIUS front end called YFi Hotspot Manager created by Dirk van der Walt. I am here with yet another announcement of a new project that Dirk is working on and it is called RadiusDesk. This is a modern webtop for FreeRADIUS using the latest technologies like REST APIs, ExtJs Javascript Library, CakePHP PHP framework and so on. The project is still pre-alpha and it is in active development (as seen in the SVN trunk) but because I always like to play with bleeding edge technologies, I have decided to post another video on how to setup RadiusDesk on CentOS 6 which should be the same with RHEL 6 and similar distros.

The links used in the Video can be found below so feel free to drop any comment and if you need help, I will be glad to assist.

RadiusDesk Source

ExtJS

CakePHP