Comp 343/443-001 Week 2 notes

Datagram routing: IP destinations are prefixes
Class A/B/C addressing system
administratively assigned
network prefix v host portion; what this means for scalability
IP version of datagram forwarding
hierarchical routing

backbone


Ethernet learning algorithm

    How do Ethernet switches build their forwarding tables?


best-effort
why does IP support fragmentation?
connectionless
    virtual circuits

IP routing
    where is the prefix?

    next_hop

    local delivery


IP addressing

1.11: DNS

1.12: Transport
    TCP goals
    TCP interface

1.13: Firewalls