Course in conjunction with Aj Suntorn.

This segment of the course will begin in January 2551 (2008). This web page will be updated between now and then (current information relates to a previous version of this course).

See the PSU Virtual Classroom for more lecture notes & materials.

Week 4:  Routing

• What is Routing?
• What is to be achieved?
• Analysing the data
• Routing methods
• Algorithms
  • Bellman-Ford (Distance Vector)
  • Dijkstra (Shortest Path First) (Link-State)
• Hierarchical Routing
• Default Route
• Exterior Routing
  • BGP

Week 5:  Fragmentation & Reassembly

• Why Fragmentation?
• Why Reassembly
• When to Fragment
• When to Reassemble
• How to Fragment
• How to Reassemble
• Why not fragment?
• Avoiding Fragmentation
  • PMTUD
• IPv6 & Fragmentation

• Sockets Interface
• Socket Types
• Protocol Families
• Representing Addresses
  • Sockaddr structures
  • Number representation
• DNS Interface
  • addrinfo structure
• connections
  • Making connections
  • Receiving connections
  • Terminating connections
• Datagram sockets
• Data transfer
  • Streams
  • Datagrams
• Example code fragments

• Applications
• The Web
• HTTP
• Web Security
• Security Methods
  • Symmetric Key Encryption
  • Public Key Encryption
• Certificates

• E-Mail
  • History & Nature
  • Message Formats
• Message Transfer (SMTP)
  • E-mail & DNS
• Post Offices & Mail collection
  • POP
  • IMAP
• Enhancing E-Mail
  • MIME

• E-Mail Security


• Conferences
• Multicast
  • Forwarding
  • Routing
• QoS & Multicast
• Security & Multicast
• Multicast Transport Protocols

• Network Management
  • MIB
  • SNMP
    • GET, SET, GETNEXT
• Traffic Control
• Routing Policies
  • BGP
• Host Configuration
  • BOOTP
  • DHCP
• IPv6 Autoconfiguration

• Course Review