Resources

Textbook

The class has one required textbook: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Edition by Kurose and Ross.

The book comes with some online tools to help you understand the material:

• Powerpoint Slides
• Interactive Problems

Learning Resources

Here are some other resources that might help you:

• Introduction to Computer Networks

• The YouTube channel Computerphile has some good videos on networking:

  • TCP Meltdown
  • VPN & Remote Working

Debugging Resources

There are a few tools that will be invaluable when debugging your labs.

• netcat (nc)

  This is a good tool for basic TCP and UDP socket debugging. It can connect to a socket or act as a socket server. It will show you all the raw data that is sent and received.

• Wireshark

  This is an indispensable tool for any networking professional. This will show you all packets being sent between two devices.

• httpie

  In my opinion, this is the best commandline HTTP tool.

• curl

  An alternative and precursor to httpie. Comes standard on most Linux distros.