ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Packets and routing
Students learn how data is split into packets, routed hop by hop using routing tables and TTL, reordered at the destination, and traced and simulated across a network.
One content description (AC9TDI10K01) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Networked Systems and Access Control journey. All 14 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (14)
1
Why data is broken down into packets
2
The three parts of a packet
3
Packet header
4
Packet number in a packet header
5
Packet switching
6
A router controls each packet's route
7
Routing table and next hop
8
Why packets can take different routes
9
Packets arriving out of order
10
Reordering packets at the destination
11
Hops and time to live (TTL)
12
The traceroute command
13
Tracing data across a network
14
Building a small network in a network simulator
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