Computer Networks
Practical exercises #17
- If you're taking this subject on the Bendigo campus, use
tkined
on the Unix systems to discover routes
to selected Internet hosts and display the network map. Investigate
some of the (very powerful and fully industrial strength) functions
available in tkined
. If you're not on the
Bendigo campus, you can still use tkined
, since
it's freely downloadable from its "home" site, as well as various
mirrors.
- As before, if you're taking this subject on the Bendigo campus try
using the SNMP command-line utilities discussed in the lecture,
such as
snmpget
, snmpgetnext
,
snmpwalk
, etc. Try
fetching the MIB variable system.sysDescr.0
from various departmental systems, and thus learn which are running
SNMP.
- One of the current Big New Things is the integration of SNMP, and
network management in general, with the WWW. You can see an
excellent example of this at the URL http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/information/mrtg/
Have a look -- it's accessable from both within and outside the
campus. Of particular interest is the ATM (microwave) link between
Bendigo and Bundoora!
This set of practical exercises accompanies
Tutorial #17.
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Philip Scott,
La Trobe University.