Comp 343/443-001 Week 2 notes
Introduction to the textbook
Programming assignments
Assignment 1
Chapter 1 exercises 1, 4, 5, 7, 8
Chapter 2 exercises 2, 3, 6
Due Wed, Sept 14
Demo:
ping
ifconfig / ipconfig
nslookup / host / dig
Ethernet: mixture of 1.9 and Chapter 2
Ethernet Collision timeline
Fast Ethernet
min packet size / slot time / max network diameter
switched full duplex => collision-free!
basic Ethernet-switch learning algorithm
IP layer: from 1.10 (resume here on Week 2)
Class A/B/C addressing system
administratively assigned
network prefix v host portion
IP version of datagram forwarding
classless routing: intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current/html/ipv4.html#the-classless-ip-delivery-algorithm
hierarchical routing
backbone
best-effort
why does IP support fragmentation?
connectionless
virtual circuits
1.11: DNS
nslookup, dig, host
1.12: Transport
TCP goals
TCP interface
1.13: Firewalls
1.14: NAT
Back to Ethernet:
Spanning-tree algorithm
VLANs
Brief look at SDN
Chapter 3:
3.1: VLANs
3.2: Carrier Ethernet
3.3: VPNs
(skip Virtual Circuits and ATM for now)
3.6: Radioland
3.7: Wi-Fi (3.7.1-3.7.4; maybe some 3.7.5-3.7.7)
collision basics