Comp 443 Week 2 notes

Assignment 1, due Tuesday Sept 18: Chapter 1 exercises 1-7.

Chapter 1:
    Transport
       TCP features
       sliding windows
       UDP

    Firewalls
    NAT
    The IETF and OSI

Chapter 2:
    Classic Ethernet
    Why study Ethernet?
    Collisions: these exist at the Ethernet physical layer
    Exponential backoff
    Why Ethernet does this

    Ethernet switches
    Spanning Tree algorithm
    Wi-Fi

Omitted:
    2.6 VLANs
    2.9 virtual circuits
    2.10 ATM