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Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by tekromancr » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 4:10 PM UTC

bb0wn wrote: post #4

Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum is also a great introductory text. http://cse.hcmut.edu.vn/~minhnguyen/NET/Computer%20Networks%...

I actually came to the comments just to mention this. This is one of THE best networking books. Shit, it is one of my favorite books PERIOD.

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by raphinou » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

Another great resource: http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/cnp3

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by teh_klev » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

bb0wn wrote: post #4

Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum is also a great introductory text. http://cse.hcmut.edu.vn/~minhnguyen/NET/Computer%20Networks%...

I hate to poo-poo this link, but I'm pretty sure this book is not free, even in PDF form.

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by synctext » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

tekromancr wrote: post #11

bb0wn wrote: post #4

Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum is also a great introductory text. http://cse.hcmut.edu.vn/~minhnguyen/NET/Computer%20Networks%...

I actually came to the comments just to mention this. This is one of THE best networking books. Shit, it is one of my favorite books PERIOD.

For the past 8 years I been using the Tanenbaum book for teaching my university networking class.

That book is really starting to show a bit of age (the author also recently retired). The Peter Dordal Creative Commons approach needs a bit more polishing. Just did a browse through and comparison, it goes quite deep (e.g. TCP Westwood). However, Tanebaum more applications and uses, including telnet to port 80, audio compression threshold of hearing and runlength encoding.

btw please put the slides online used to present this to students.. Every professor needs to make their own now.

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by bbulkow » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

I've been looking for clear statement of IPv6 --- it's not sticking in my head yet and I get a lot of questions about schema design around IPv6 --- this looks like it might finally give a clear view.

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by bbulkow » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

I've been looking for clear statement of IPv6 --- it's not sticking in my head yet and I get a lot of questions about schema design around IPv6 --- this looks like it might finally give a clear view.

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

bb0wn wrote: post #4

Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum is also a great introductory text. http://cse.hcmut.edu.vn/~minhnguyen/NET/Computer%20Networks%...

It's 'Tanenbaum'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by tekromancr » Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

synctext wrote: post #14

tekromancr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually came to the comments just to mention this. This is one of THE best networking books. Shit, it is one of my favorite books PERIOD.

For the past 8 years I been using the Tanenbaum book for teaching my university networking class. That book is really starting to show a bit of age (the author also recently retired). The Peter Dordal Creative Commons approach needs a bit more polishing. Just did a browse through and comparison, it goes quite deep (e.g. TCP Westwood). However, Tanebaum more applications and uses, including telnet to port 80, audio co…

I think you may be mistaking my comment with another. I am not (currently) a teacher (though I do very much like explaining things!).

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by alphonse23 » Sat, Jan 31, 2015, 2:02 AM UTC

I took this class a few years ago -- Professor Dordal is super amazing! I'm going to totally re-read this book!

Re: An Introduction to Computer Networks

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Post by Swannie » Sun, Feb 01, 2015, 9:52 PM UTC

vlan0 wrote: post #6

The scope of content in that book is pretty large for an audience needing an introduction to computer networks.

The scope of networking, at an introductory level, is large. It's increasingly important too, as more and more systems become distributed, and rely on the network. For example, HDD's with ethernet interfaces!