SCHOOL ON RADIO USE FOR DIGITAL AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS 11th February - 1st March 2002 , Trieste (Italy)
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002
Prepared by:  C.K. Aanandan and Sona O. Kundukulam <aanandan@ictp.trieste.it>

On this Friday, the participants were eagerly waiting for a weekend after
a weeks' hectic shedule. The weather outside was very cold and windy and the
participants were in the "party" mood of the prevous evening. But
the mood changed as soon as Carlo Fonda started his lecture cum
demonstration on linux os.  He was actually running around in the lab in
his usual style and we could  practice "real time" what he was
explaining; the different commands in linux for file creation, file
editing, copying etc..etc..For people who were addicted to "windows" it
was a time to recollect the DOS commands.

He discussed the vi editor in detail. We studied how to create the
configuration file for the web server. An html file called index.html has
been created and we saw how nicely it will appear in the browser window.
Thus we concluded the pre-lunch session. 

The afternoon saw Mr Carlo in full swing explaining different aspects of
networking. He told us how to setup a local area network in the
laboratory. Mr Contreras was there to help us in the lab
session. The participants were divided into four groups with each
group having four pcs connected via a hub. We studied how to set IP
address, netmask etc for the host systems. The ping command was used to
communicate between the PCs within a group. Then one PC in each group
was
identified as the router and the settings for it was done in the file
rc.inet1 using
the vi editor. All the routers were connected to a switch. After
configuring
the routers, we were able to communicate
between groups. Then one router was connected to the internet so that from
each PC it was possible to access internet.

A  very fruitfully spend session ended at 6:30 pm and the participants
during dinner time were planning their hectic schedule for the weekend.  

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