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IGNOU BCSL-56 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Q1. (a): Write a UDP client and UDP server program in C language on Unix/Linux, where client program interact with the Server as given below:
1. The client will send a message “welcome” to the Server.
2. Server program sends an acknowledgement for receiving the message.
3. The sever program will find the length of the message and send it to the respective client.
4. The client will send an acknowledgement to the server upon receiving the response.
5. The server program will reverse the message and send it to the respective client.
6. The client will send an acknowledgement to the server upon receiving the response.
Q1. (b) Write the steps to install the network monitor application on Unix/Linux. Demonstrate the use of the capture filter and display filter with the help of examples for each.
Q1. (c) Run the following Linux commands on your machine and show the output:
➢ cat
➢ sort
➢ ping
➢ more
➢ df-h
➢ tail – f
Q2. (a) Write the command(s) to perform the following tasks
(i) Checking the status of the destination host and communication with another host name.
(ii) Finding host/domain name and IP address.
Q2. (b) Configure the DHCP server on the Linux operating system. Write all the steps and sort each column of the table, then show the result.
IGNOU BCSL-56 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Q1 (a): Write and execute a TCP client and a server program in C-language to perform the following tasks:
The TCP client program sends two strings to the TCP server program to find length of these to strings and return the sum of lenghts of these two strings. Also the TCP server program sends the concatenated strings to the client.
(b) Run the following Linux commands on your machine and show the output:
cat
sort
ping
more
df-h
tail – f
Q2. (a) Configure and test the Telnet server in Linux.
(b) Configure the DHCP server on the Linux operating system. Write all the steps involved in configuration. Sort each column of the table and show the result.




