Week 7: How it works: more of the principles that underlie networks

Introduction

In this seventh week of the course you will work through the thirteenth and fourteenth sessions of the course.

The thirteenth session shows you how to set IP addresses with the opportunity to revise and practice your network set up skills.

This session will be taught by Paul Wallin, a Chartered Engineer, Associate Lecturer at the Open University and Cisco Academy Instructor.

The fourteenth session looks at how routers learn about distant networks to which they are not directly connected.

This session will be taught by Rob Spragg, who runs his own network company and is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University.