IS450/650 Page
Most resources will be on and communications will be via Blackboard.
Text
Douglas E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets, Prentice
Hall, 5th edition. Be sure to get the
current edition, the 5th (starting Spring 2009). Links:
Some examples and discussion of the material.
Old quizzes
Quizzes from:
Topics by Chapter
(Note that the chapter numbers correspond to
the previous text, Peterson and Davie, and not to Comer. This
will be fixed eventually.)
- General Overview/Reference
- The IBM
TCP/IP Redbook. This is the free networking
book mentioned in the syllabus. It's worth looking at
as a supplement to the text when things seem unclear,
but is certainly not required reading.
- Preliminaries/Prerequisites
- Chapter 1, Foundation
- A Concise Guide, to
the Major Internet Bodies.
- GeoTool, a
combination DNS lookup and global positioning.
- Units
matter (and Verizon Canada can't do math) (and George is much more
patient than I am)
- Chapter 2, Direct Link Networks
- The Industrial Ethernet
University. It's not really a university, but it's also not
really just Ethernet. Click on curriculum, and have a look at
their "courses." Each is really just a short introduction to a
topic.
- Chapter 4, Internetworking
- Industrialethernet.com (see above) has introductions to IP
and to subnetting.
- A short note on subnetting and obsolete information on the web.
- A short CIDR example.
- Distribution of addresses from Tanaya
- Microsoft article from TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft
Windows, chapter 4, Subnetting.
- How
a routing
decision by one ISP blocked access to Youtube worldwide in
February 2008.
- The Day the
Routers Died.
- Chapter 5, End-to-End Protocols
- Industrialethernet.com (see above) has an introduction to
TCP.
- Chapter 8, Security
General Interest
From here one can also go
- To Martens' Course Page
- To Martens' home page
- To the UMBC IS Dept
- To UMBC
, Jeff Martens.