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Thanks. I'd found those but what I'm really interested in are the course assignments which only seem to be available for the actual course. The first two are the only ones I can't find right now
The first two programming assignments can be found here: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/10au-cs144/lab/reliable/reliable... . The 2012 assignments were the same.
When I was studying networking we used a network simulation tool called cnet[0], which has the nice property that it can do network simulation at different protocol layers as well as having different topologies. It can also simulate things like wide-area networks, noisy connections and so on. Most of the assignments built around cnet were of the form of "Here is a network protocol that is half-completed. Write the tr…
At the TU Ilmenau we used OMNeT++ ( http://www.omnetpp.org/ ) which had the benefit of having built-in classes for statistics collection and looking at graphs while the simulation ran - mininet doesn't seem to offer such functionality (yet?). But then it sometimes felt like omnet had too many layers of indirection and C++ was not everybodys language of choice. Our assignments were similar, I remember doing stuff with…
If you want a "real" network GNS3 is so much better.
I kind of want to use this to build a hacking game. You get to use real world tools to uncover bits of story scattered across a virtual network. You could even write little "agents" that run on the nodes that cause traffic to happen between nodes, or react to things happening on the network.