Work in Progress: An Innovative Supporting System for Developing Advanced Skills in LAN Administration

In the present paper, we describe the mechanism and performance of a LAN building support system for the undergraduate study of LAN administration. The present system can be used to make a real hierarchic network from design information alone in a short time on a hands-on networking laboratory that we already suggested. Using the present system, each student is able to develop advanced skills on a personalized LAN, and to study LAN administration from the perspective of a user to that of a domain network administrator. We realized this short time building to implement an automatic mechanism of LAN device configuration and initializing networking hosts. On the target networking laboratory, students are able to study how to design networks and construct servers on a hierarchical network with administrative privilege and no risks