Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This revolutionary text and its accompanying CD replace a whole lab full of computer equipment. They give computer science students realistic hands-on experience working with network protocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, and PCs of an actual network. Using the latest version of the open source program Ethereal, the reader opens packet trace files from the CD and follows the text to perform the exercises, gaining a thorough understanding of the material in the best way possible--by seeing it in action. This approach also benefits the instructor, who is spared the time-consuming tasks of maintaining a laboratory and taking traces. It can even relieve the anxiety system administrators have about students collecting traces on campus networks!

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeanna Matthews is the author of Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action, published by Wiley.