TDC 375-701
Bonus Project
Due 2009-11-11

This is an entirely optional project.  It is designed to help provide
an opportunity to explore some network protocol related topics and
activities outside of the classroom and outside of a book.  Its not an
exhaustive exercise.  Its supportive of what you're learning, but its
neither necessary to succeed in this course nor adequate experience
with which to excel in the real world.  It is what it is.  Hopefully
you'll get something out of it if you choose to work on it.  At the
least I hope it is "fun", for some definition of network protocol fun.

This project may boost your final grade by up to 10%.  This will be
at the discretion of the instructor based on your contribution to
working on the project and through your project report(s).

You are allowed to consult other current TDC 375-701 classmates, but
you MUST perform all the work yourself and submit your own unique
solution sets.  No group submissions.

The project is a network protocols oriented challenge and it will
continue until the last lecture class (the class before the final
exam).  To complete this project in its entirety you will perform
and solve various networking protocol related tasks and puzzles.
There are multiple steps in the project and the answer to each
successive step will lead you to the next part of the challenge.

To complete some of these challenges, you should have access to a
host/OS that you have administrative rights for and must be able to
generate most any packet type.  If you're behind a very restrictive
NAT, firewall or locked down host, that will simply be part of your
challenge.

That said, at all times, thoroughly document your progress.  Write
up where you get stuck, how you accomplished various tasks, what
you learned, what short-cuts you took, how others helped you and
how you helped others.  This is part of the project report and for
each stage you'll need to submit this to earn credit.

Instructions are not provided, but I may provide some clues or
hints from time to time.  Everything you should need to get started
can be found here:

  <http://condor.depaul.edu/~jkristof/tdc375/trace.pcap>

Have fun.

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