An 80 page teacher’s manual is available to download from our website and covers system set-up, digital communications theory and contains a range of exercises for students to work through, see resources tab above.

Learning objectives/experiments:

• OSI model and layers
• Ethernet, DLC, MAC, ARP, TCP, IP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP and POP3 protocols
• MAC packet structure and message creation using microcontrollers
• Communication strategy and information flow
• Packet injectors and debuggers

Labs include:

• ARP scanning
• Ping
• Time and date messages using UDP
• Sending HTML using HTTP protocol
• Receiving HTML
• Sending an email using SMTP protocol

Advanced tasks include:

• Custom messaging using UDP
• A firewall application

For the Arduino version of this course, please see BL0535