Announcements, EE 122 / Fall 2006

  • Grades have now been entered. All in all - Great Job!
  • Solutions for the final are now available.


  • Previous announcements

  • The solutions for Homework #4 are now available.
  • Project #3 is now out. Phase I is due Nov 16, 11PM, with no slip days. Phase II is due Dec 10, 11PM.
  • Dilip is now conducting the Wednesday discussion section.
  • Prof. Paxson's office hours are now Wednesday are 3-4PM instead of 2:30-3:30PM.
  • Optional lecture by Prof. Paxson, Experiences With Countering Internet Attacks, Weds Dec 6, 2:30-4PM, Cory 540 A/B.
  • Prof. Paxson's office hours the week of Dec 4th are by appointment.
  • Homework #4 is now out, due Nov 29, 3:50PM. (Note, this is a change from the original due date of Nov 27.)
  • The solutions for Homework #3 are now available.
  • Prof. Ion Stoica to lecture on Wednesday, November 29.
  • Prof. Paxson is away November 29 - December 1. Office hours on Monday or Tuesday by appointment.
  • You should plan on attending section either Friday Nov 17, Tuesday Nov 21, or Wednesday Nov 22, as the discussion will center around Phase 2 of Project #3.
  • Reminder, there is no lecture on Wednesday Nov 22, due to people departing for Thanksgiving.
  • Prof. Paxson's office hours for Wednesday Nov 22 will be held on request - send email.
  • Friday Nov 17 is the last day to discuss grading of Homeworks #1 and #2 and Projects #1 and #2.
  • Additional reading for Lecture 20 (Nov 8): P & D section 3.4.
  • The lecture schedule has been changed. We'll start covering TCP one lecture earlier than before (Oct 31), and the reading for performance evaluation (P & D 1.5) is deferred to Nov. 6. The lecture on Nov. 8 is now TBD, though it will likely be a continuation of TCP performance issues and evaluation.
  • Homework #3 is now out, due Nov 6, 3:50PM.
  • Project #2 is now out, due Oct 26, 11PM. Note that there is also a checkpoint due Oct 18, 11PM.
  • The midterm solutions are now available.
  • The solutions for Homework #2 are now available.
  • The solutions for Homework #1 are now available.
  • Dilip to lecture on Monday, October 23
  • Prof. Scott Shenker to lecture on Wednesday, October 25
  • Prof. Paxson will be away the week of October 23 - no office hours & limited email contact
  • Prof. Paxson will have extra office hours on Monday Oct. 16, 1:30-3:30PM.
  • Sukun will have extra office hours on Friday Oct. 13, 4-5PM.
  • Office hours for Prof. Paxson on Wednesday Oct. 4 are 3-4PM instead of 2:30-3:30PM.
  • Tutorial slides for using tcpdump [Powerpoint, 2-up, 6-up] are now available. This material will also be covered in section.
  • The PDF files for the lecture notes stall some of the campus printers. Please use one of the following newer printers to print them:
    lw105 (105 Cory)
    lw119 (119 Cory)
    lw199 (199 Cory)
    lw330 (330 Soda)
    lw349 (349 Soda, card-key access only)
  • FTP will be covered in discussion section (starting on Friday Sept. 29) rather than in lecture. You can wait on skimming RFC 959 until your section meets.
  • We have updated the description of Project #1 to state that you should run on c199.eecs.berkeley.edu rather than quasar.cs.berkeley.edu, as well as including a few clarifications that have come up.
  • Lectures 8 & 9 have been swapped.
  • Homework #2 will be out on Weds Sep 20 rather than Mon Sep 18, and due Wed Oct 11 rather than Wed Oct 4.
  • Because the bookstores are delayed in stocking the Peterson/Davie text, the due date for Homework #1 is postponed one week to Sept. 20.
  • In the interim, here is an electronic version of Chapter 1.
  • Problem 2 in the homework ("ping") has been updated to change some of the probed hosts to fix ones that don't respond.
  • In general, we are shifting the dates of the remaining homework assignments considerably - they will come out later (on the due date of their predecessor) and you will have more time to do them.
  • During the week of Sept. 11-15, Vern and Dilip will be away at ACM SIGCOMM 2006. Consequently, they will not have office hours.
  • No lecture on Weds Sept. 13.
  • New lecture location as of Wed Aug 30: 155 Donner.
  • Please sign up for the class mailing list and take the background survey.
  • Office hours for Prof. Paxson the week of Aug 28 are by appointment (email vern@icsi.berkeley.edu).
  • Lecture commences 4PM Monday, Aug 28, in 247 Cory.