• Each project requires a 30-45 minute presentation and a research paper.
• Once you have researched a topic, you need to discuss with me the approach you are going to take. Note that installation on your machine is a good thing. Meet with me at least 10 days prior to your presentation.
• Your research paper is due to the class 3 days after your presentation.
• Use a text formatter, ala Framemaker, LaTex, etc. - your choice.
• A Bibliography is required. It must be an annotated bibliography - describe the subject matter of each reference and evaluated its usefulness to your project.
• Must evaluate 2 systems: yours, and turing/muddcs.
• Presentations should be organized. There is nothing wrong with presentations and papers following the same outline.
• First come, first serve on choice of projects.

Subject Areas

1. 2 April 1997
   1. Network tools: telnet, ftp, web, gopher, archie. Short summary of the tool capabilities. Effort should center on the care and feeding of the tools, e.g., anonymous ftp, telnet, rlogin, uucp.
      Nick Carroll
   2. Security. Describe the whole field. Emphasize one of more aspects. Tools to check security. public key systems, slogin, password checking, etc.
      Scott Boone
2. 14 April
   1. DNS. Its history and use; its components; its setup; its care and feeding; and related tools. Use of dns for web work, security issues, use of dns for white pages, current dns activities (internet drafts)
      Dylan Loomis
   2. User white pages or databases. X500 vs whois++, ldap, existing X500 systems - installation, use, updates, etc.
      Janet Newman
3. 16 April
   1. UNIX/pc networking. Approaches, issues, and administration, an implementation, e.g., pc-nfs and samba.
      Tod Semple
   2. UNIX/Mac networking. Approaches, issues, and administration, an implementation.
      Josh Ament
4. 21 April
   1. SLIP and PPP. Introduction to connections from dial-in and other media. How to set up, how to use, etc.
      Phil Sphicas
   2. TCP/IP and Routing. The basics of networking in the UNIX world. Cannot be done by CS125 student. This concerns the basics of the underlying networking protocols and the tools that an administrator would use to set up networking and to administer networking.
      Geoff Finger
5. 23 April
   1. Printing & Spooling subsystem; lp, lpr, network printing, adding printers, setup of filters, printer management (clearing queues, restart, etc.) Good Luck.
      Matt Dharm
6. 5 May
   1. Windowing Systems. X and its setup, window managers,
      Zaheer Kazi
   2. looking at different http servers (e.g., plexus) Particularly looking at ways providing dynamic information (ie. generating HTML on-the-fly, not just serving static documents)
      TJ Kelly
7. 7 May
   1. NIS, NIS+. what it gives you, what it does not give you. review of cs cluster,
      Dallas Bethune
   2. Performance Analysis. Tools, techniques, etc. What are the available tools (included with distribution). Additional tools.
      Jeff Clark
8. Syslog and all its files, setups, etc.
9. User environment, setups, documentation, etc.
10. Accounting. How to do it, why to do it. What does it tell you. Possible daily, weekly, monthly reports.
11. Something that I have missed.