Second Quarter

Face-to-Face meeting

Sept. 17 & 18, 2012 (New York City)

Topic: networking and virtualization

Agenda

Pre-meeting reading materials

• ? link to article on racism and technology
• ​overview of IPv4
• Wikipedia article on ​Virtualization

Sept. 17

• 9:00 - 10:00 am Participants' Initial Reactions to Course - Go Round
• 10:00 - 12:00 Presentation and Discussion: Role of Racism in Technology
• 12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
• 1:00 - 3:00 pm Interactive lecture on core competancies Part I
  • What's an IP address?
  • ​Understanding dhcp (watching dhcp sessions by using ifup/ifdown)
  • DNS: ​using dig to query name servers
  • understanding netmask, ip address and gateway settings and ​CIDR notation (e.g. "/27 network")
  • configuring your network card manually using the ip suite of commands
  • understanding ​network bridges and the use of the brctl command
  • understanding ​virtual network devices (aka tap devices) and how to create them with the ip command
  • Using dnsmasq to setup your own dhcp/dns server on your local computer
• 3:00 - 3:15 pm Break
• 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Interactive lecture on core competancies Part II
  • Introduction to Bash programming (executing commands, defining functions, if/then statements)
  • Assignment: write bash script to create a bridge, add two virtual network devices to the bridge, and assign them ip addresses.
• 5:15 - 5:30 pm Wrap up
• 6:30 pm: Group Dinner

September 18

• 9:00 - 9:30 Reflections on previous day
• 9:30 - 11:30 ​Putting it all together to launch a virtual machine
  • Understanding the bash script
  • Downloading a Debian installer iso file and launching a virtual instance to install it
• 11:30 - 12:00 wrap up

Second Quarter's Work

Over the course of the second quarter, mentees will be assigned the tasks of setting up virtual servers to perform the following tasks:

• Web Environment [link to how to], Deadline: October 15
• Email system [link to how to], Deadline: November 15
• File Server/Samba server [link to how to]: December 8