Introduction to computer communication - 2012


Useful Links

·         Socket turorials: There are plenty of sites on the internet that are glad to teach you how to do socket programming. For example:

·         Beej’s guide to Networking: very nice tutorial, lots of code, but intended mostly to Unix users.

·         Johnie’s Winsock tutorial: for Windows.

·         Stevens code from “Unix network Programming” (zip compressed).

·         Internet RFCs: You can find them anywhere using Google, but this one is convenient.

·         Ethereal - a network protocol analyzer. Highly recommended for debugging network protocols. The authoritative source is ethereal.com. Here is our local copy of the installation package, and here’s a local copy of the user’s guide.
Notes:

·         Requires administrator privileges to run (otherwise no interface will be selectable).

·         Wifi interfaces not supported.

·         Cruz's article about traffic models

·         8b/10b paper by Widmer & Franaszek

·         Old exams: 2002, 2003 moed aleph, bet; 2005 moed aleph, bet; 2006 moed aleph, bet; 2007 moed aleph, bet; 2008 moed aleph, bet; 2009 moed aleph, bet; 2010 moed aleph.  See also in Mansour’s course web site.