This was a cool day. We went on a ‘field trip’ although just within the Ed Roberts Campus. Alex toured us to the Minimum Point of Entry (MPOE), Main Distribution Frame (MDF) and the Intermediate Distribution Frame (IDF) that serves the networks of the different organizations located in the campus. It was really quite an impressive site to see the work and effort put in making all these connections work. I was in awe at the complexity of the wiring/cabling and the different devices which are working in the background. Everybody had a grand time listening to Alex explaining how work and just taking pictures.
This day was also really informative when Alex gave as a brief glimpse of networking and IP protocol concepts. Identifying how many IPs belong to a network is confusing for anybody who tries it for the first time. However, it gets clearer with time. The key is looking at the network identifier.
Lastly, we looked at the BIOS settings of a computer and learned to change the boot order.