Tutorial 1
Introduction to the Internet
GE2338 Internet Applications and Security
Understand Your Computer (1/4)
Use Command Prompt
• Step 1: Click on the Search icon at the taskbar
• Step 2: Type cmd
• Step 3: Click on the Command Prompt to open it
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Understand Your Computer (2/4)
In the Command Prompt window, type “ipconfig /all” (don’t enter the double
quotation marks) and then press the Enter key
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Understand Your Computer (3/4)
Q1: What is your computer’s IP address*?
Ans:_________________________________
Q2: What is the default gateway IP address?
Ans:_________________________________
Q3: What are the DNS servers’ IP addresses?
Ans:_________________________________
*Your computer’s IP address should be unique in the CityU network. You can check
with your neighbor classmates to see if it is different from the IP addresses of their
computers.
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Understand Your Computer (4/4)
Go to [Link] and check your computer’s public IP
address
Q4: What is your computer’s public IP address?
Ans:_________________________________
Q5: Is the IP address in Q1 a private or public IP address?
Ans:_________________________________
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Clear Browsing Data (1/2)
The local storage cache should be
deleted to ensure that the files are
downloaded from the server.
• Step 1: Click the “Customize and
control Google Chrome” icon
• Step 2: Select “More tools”
• Step 3: Select “Clear browsing data”
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Clear Browsing Data (2/2)
Clear browsing data
• Step 1: In the Basic tab, select all check
boxes
• Step 2: Click on the “Clear data” button
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HTTP Tracing (1/2)
Use Google Chrome web browser to conduct HTTP tracing
• Step 1: Open Google Chrome
• Step 2: Press the F12 key
• Step 3: Select the Network section
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HTTP Tracing (2/2)
Q6: In the location bar, enter each of the following URL to find out the number
of requests, access time, and the total file size of the web document.
URL Number of Access Time Total File Size
Requests (seconds) (MB)
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
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