Industry Panel Lab

It was very interesting listening to how much communication skills matter in a tech related profession. Its not all about what you can do in front of a computer screen but also what you can do face to face. The panel also eased my thoughts about what to major in. I have realized just because you have a certain major, it doesn't plug u in to one profession. It gives you options.

Lab 8

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Make up Lab

Objective: use wireshark and other web programs to capture and reveal packets of information from various websites and sources.

In the make up lab we used various tools such as wireshark and superscan to observe what was contained within packets sent to use via youtube. We learned about how these packets connected with the various layers of networking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

Before this lab I was unaware of what TLS meant as far as a type of packet and it looks to encrypt information to add security to the 4th layer of the network. We also used whois.net to look at who actually owns certain domains and it also gave us statistics on when the domain was registered.

We also looked into T1 lines via t1shopper.com and it was interesting to see how much T1 costs and what advantages it offers over a traditional DSL connection.

Lab 7 Subnetting

Objective: Create a network with proper subnetting

The network was physically built fairly easily but configuring it took about an hour. We kept running into issues configuring out IP and router incorrectly. I feel like I have a new understanding of the process needed to be done to subnet a network properly.