In Spring, 2025, I will be teaching the undergraduate networking practicum. As of this administration, this course is being revamped and restructured, to be more timely, and more software-oriented for better relevance to Computer Science students. Rather than focus on specific hardware switch or router models from any commercial vendor, the practicum will now focus on a fully software-realized switch, on the ubiquitous Linux platform. This will not only allow students to work on a virtual environment that can be accessed from anywhere (instead of requiring physical presence at a lab), it will also familiarize students with a software system that is much more likely to be useful as a building block for the increasingly softwarized and software-defined network systems of the near future. This course will not require or provide CCNA or any similar other certification. Interested students can refer to the syllabus attached.