Comp 343/443-001 Week 2 notes
Assignment 1:
Chapter 1 exercises 1, 4, 5, 7, 8
Chapter 2 exercises 2, 3, 6
Due Wed, Sept 9
Ethernet: mixture of 1.9 and Chapter 2
10 Mbps classic Ethernet
Why study classic Ethernet?
Design goals
broadcast bus
repeaters
taps
packet format
Slot time and collisions
RTT
delay budget
minimum packet size
Exponential backoff
Analysis of Classic Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
slot time
network diameter
switched full duplex => collision-free!
Gigabit Ethernet
Switch Learning Algorithm
Spanning Tree Algorithm
IP layer
from 1.10
Other net/host division options
best-effort
why does IP support fragmentation?
connectionless
virtual circuits
IP routing
next_hop
local delivery
IP addressing
DNS
nslookup
1.12: Transport
TCP goals
TCP interface
1.13: Firewalls
1.14: NAT