Assessment Brief

Module: CI5250 Setter: M Arslan Usman

Title of Assignment: Networking Design Deadline: 10/11/2023 at 23:59

Module weighting: 25%

Coursework Aim
This exercise will allow you to identify, review, and understand protocols (at all layers) involved in a
simple scenario: exchanging emails via an Email server.

Submission Details
Submission of coursework will be performed using Turnitin on Canvas. You need to upload two files:
the first file is a Word document that includes the answers to the Tasks 1 to 4 described in the
Coursework Brief below. The second file is the packet tracer (PT) file. Submit your files via Turnitin
on the module’s Canvas assignment pages. This assignment counts for 25% of the total mark of this
module.

Deadline: 10/11/2023 @ 23:59 (including the 24 hour grace period)

This is an individual piece of work. You MUST reference any external sources that you have used to
derive your answers. Please note that ChatGPT or similar LLM based chatbots cannot be used as
references.

Coursework:

This coursework considers an integrated and holistic review (putting-it-all-together) of our learning
journey down the IP protocol stack (application, transport, network, and link layers). This
coursework considers a scenario when students attach their laptops to the University network.
Figure 1 illustrates this scenario. In this scenario, Laptop1 and laptop2 exchange emails via an Email
server. As we have learned, such a scenario considers a lot of protocols. The university network
consists of three subnetworks (subnets). Details of these subnets are as follows:

Network 1 consists of the following:

1. End devices (Laptop1 and Laptop2)
2. Network devices (Switch1)

Network 2 consists of the following:

1. End devices (Email server)
2. Network devices (Switch2)

Network 3 consists of the following:

1. End devices (DHCP and DNS servers)
2. Network devices (Switch3)

All three networks are connected via a Router.

 Figure 1 Networking scenario

Tasks to perform for this coursework:

Submit a document that includes answers to the following tasks, please add a front page to the
report showing your name, K number, module title and code, and assignment title:

Task 1

Assign IP addresses for the three networks and the involved devices. (For Laptop1 and Laptop2, the
DHCP server will assign their IP addresses.)
 For this task you should enter your IP addresses in Tables 1 and 2 overleaf. (15 Marks)
 Please explain your IP addressing design. (Hint: the description here can be as bullet points,
max text limit is 150 words). (15 Marks)

Note that the network address assigned to you for this task has the following format:
200.1XY.199.0/25 where X and Y are the 2 nd and 4th digits of your K number starting from the left
e.g., if the K number is K1420812 then the network address assigned to you is 200.140.199.0/25.
Task 2

Implement the scenario in Figure 1 using Packet Tracer. Show the results of the successful
implementation of this scenario.
(30 Marks)

(Hint: Copy and paste the packet tracer implementation of the network, use the Ping command
between the different devices and show successful communications between the devices. Show the
results of Laptops 1 and 2 exchanging emails using the Email server. Remember to submit the packet
tracer file via the assignment link for packet tracer file on Canvas.)

Task 3

Describe the steps and protocols involved in assigning IP addresses to the laptops in this packet
tracer simulation.

(20 Marks)

(Hint: the description here can be as bullet points and diagrams, max text limit is 200 words)

Task 4

Show the steps and networking protocols involved in the emails exchange between Laptops 1 and 2
via the Email server in this packet tracer simulation.

(20 Marks)
(Hint: the description here can be as bullet points and diagrams, max text limit is 200 words).

Table 1 Subnet IP Addresses

Subnet Subnet IP
First Host Last Host Broadcast Subnet Mask
Name Address
Network 1

Network 2
Network 3
 Table 2 Host IP Addresses

Default
Device Interface IP Address Subnet Mask
Gateway

Router

Laptop1

Laptop2

DHCP Server

DNS Server

Email Server
 Assessment Criteria

Table 3 Criteria Grades for the Networking Design Coursework

Exceeded Met Close to Below

Expectations Expectations expectations Expectation
100-75% 74-60% 59-40% 39-1%
All steps and All steps and All steps and Failure to IP
protocols are protocols are protocols are design, implement
identified and identified and identified and and identify the
described described correctly described correctly steps and
correctly involved involved in the involved in the protocols involved
in the email email exchange via email exchange via in the file
exchange via email server email server download
email server scenario. IP scenario. IP scenario.
scenario. IP addressing is addressing is
addressing is correctly designed. partially designed.
correctly Well documented Well documented
designed. The with results with results
scenario is discussions discussion.
correctly
simulated using
packet tracer tool.
Well documented
with screenshots
of the results and
discussion.

Academic Misconduct

Plagiarism is presenting somebody else’s work as your own. It is an offence to copy materials (even if
it is a phrase or a sentence) from the Internet or other work and publications. You must write
everything in your own words. Collusion is also an offence i.e., allowing another student to use your
work even if it is just as a template! There is a heavy penalty for plagiarism and collusion which could
see you receiving a ZERO mark and your subsequent academic record may be affected.

Start
YES
Student submits the Student’s Own
Assignment Graded! END
assignment. work?

NO

Call for a 15-minute This will be strictly on campus!

Summer Retakes!
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NO YES
Student’s Own
FAIL! Assignment Graded! END
work?

Can be reported as academic

misconduct!