Revised and updated throughout, including:
- FAQ email list with answer to questions from a leading networking authority
- NEW -- Chapter 24, User Datagram Protocol: Introduces an end-to-end datagram protocol and shows how to use it. Once considered insignificant, UDP forms the important basis for multicast and broadcast applications and new applications that transfer audio or video.
- NEW--Chapter 26, Network Address Translation: (NAT): Explains how NAT techology overcomes a major limitation of the Internet by allowing multiple computers to share a single IP address, especially important for residential and small business installations.
- NEW--Chapter 33, IP Telephony: Discusses the most exciting new Internet application, transmitting telephone calls over the Internet (VoIP). The chapter explains competing standards for IP telephony, including protocols such as H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and MegacoIt also shows a sample SIP session.
- Includes a CD-ROM with animations, packet traces, more than 200 photos of networking epuipment, code from the book and copies of protocol standards. A Web site with additional items including instructional materials is at http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu
- Accompanying lab manual, Hands-On Networking with Internet Technologies, Second Edition, offers an integrated package for teachers.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Motivation And Tools
Chapter 3 Network programming And Applications
Chapter 4 Transmission Media
Chapter 5 Local Asynchronous Communication (RS-232)
Chapter 6 Long-Distance Communication (carriers, Modulation,
and Modems)
Chapter 7 Packets, Frames, And Error Detection
Chapter 8 LAN Technologies And Network Topology
Chapter 9. Hardware Addressing And Frame Tape Identification
Chapter 10 LAN Wiring, Physical Topology, And Interface
Hardware
etc.