Comp 343-001 Week 2 notes

Introduction to the textbook
Programming assignments

Assignment 1
    Chapter 1 exercises 1.0, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
    Chapter 2 exercises 2.0, 3.0, 7.0
    Due Friday, June 5 (end of Week 3)

Review IPv4 scaling

Ethernet: destinations are individual host addresses
IP: destinations are address prefixes, so one forwarding entry can cover a large number of hosts

Ethernet: mixture of 1.9 and Chapter 2

Old-school Ethernet (10 Mbps classic Ethernet)

broadcast bus
collisions
CSMA/CD
minimum packet size
physical v logical layer
Network Interfaces and packet delivery
    eavesdropping
multicast addresses
Fast Ethernet

Switched Ethernet

    switched full duplex => collision-free!

basic Ethernet-switch learning algorithm

Quick look at Chapter 9:

Rest of Chapter 1:
    CDNs
    Firewalls
    Useful utilities
    IETF v OSI


Chapter 3:

3.1: Spanning Tree  
3.2: VLANs
3.4: SDN

4.1: Radioland
4.2: Wi-Fi
    4.2.1: collision basics; link-layer ACKs
    4.2.2: rate scaling
    4.2.3: MIMO

4.2.4: Access points

    linssid demo (linux utility; runs as root; needs display access)

    4.2.5: security
    4.2.7: polling mode
    4.2.8: MANETs and mesh