Intro to Computer Networks - Week 5

This week we concluded our second group programming assignment, the TCP Chat Server.  It was a fun assignment in creating a chat server and client program to communication over a TCP socket. There were some intricacies in handling different states cleanly, but our group worked well together to get it done.  In class work this week, we covered the network layer.  We learned about how packets are routed and hopefully eventually reach their target end destination.  We spent time understanding how IP addresses work, both IPv4 and IPv6, how they're assigned and what they mean.  Other topics that were covered were software defined networking,