Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action

Hands–on networking experience, without the lab!

The best way to learn about network protocols is to see them inaction. But that doesn t mean that you need a lab full ofnetworking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanyingCD give readers realistic hands–on experience working with networkprotocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, andPCs of an actual network.

Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Actionprovides packet traces of real network activity on CD. Readers openthe trace files using Ethereal, an open source network protocolanalyzer, and follow the text to perform the exercises, gaining athorough understanding of the material by seeing it in action.

Features

Practicality: Readers are able to learn by doing,without having to use actual networks. Instructors can add anactive learning component to their course without the overhead ofcollecting the materials. Flexibility: This approach has been used successfullywith students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Appropriatefor courses regardless of whether the instructor uses a bottom–upor a top–down approach. Completeness: The exercises take the reader from thebasics of examining quiet and busy networks through application,transport, network, and link layers to the crucial issues ofnetwork security.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Section 1: Getting Started.

1.0 Introduction.

1.1 Examining a Quiet Network with Ethereal.

1.2 Protocol Layering.

1.3 Examining a Busy Network Using Filters.

Section 2: Application Layer Protocols.

2.0 Introduction.

2.1 Under the Hood of HTTP.

2.2 HTTP Caching, Authorization and Cookies.

2.3 FTP File Transfer Protocol.

2.4 Sending and Receiving Email with SMTP and POP.

Section 3: Transport Layer Protocols.

3.0 Introduction.

3.1 Simple TCP Stream.

3.2 Retransmission in TCP.

3.3 Comparing TCP to UDP.

3.4 Competing TCP and UDP Streams.

Section 4: Network Layer Protocols.

4.0 Introduction.

4.1 Joining the Internet: Introduction to IP and DHCP.

4.2 Ping and Traceroute.

4.3 Dynamic Routing with RIP.

Section 5: Link Layer Protocols.

5.0 Introduction.

5.1 MAC Addresses.

5.2 Ethernet.

5.3 Wireless LANs.

Section 6: Security.

6.0 Introduction.

6.1 Encryption.

6.2 IP Spoofing and TCP Session Stealing.

6.3 System Vulnerabilities.

Index.