Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action by Jeanna Matthews

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  • 288pp
  • Sales Rank: 314,156

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  • ISBN-13: 9780471661863
  • Edition Description: New Edition
  • Edition Number: 1
  • Pub. Date: December 2004
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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  • Pub. Date: December 2004
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 288pp
  • Sales Rank: 314,156

Synopsis

Hands-on networking experience, without the lab!
The best way to learn about network protocols is to see them in action. But that doesn't mean that you need a lab full of networking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanying CD give readers realistic hands-on experience working with network protocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, and PCs of an actual network.
Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action provides packet traces of real network activity on CD. Readers open the trace files using Ethereal, an open source network protocol analyzer, and follow the text to perform the exercises, gaining a thorough understanding of the material by seeing it in action.
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* Practicality: Readers are able to learn by doing, without having to use actual networks. Instructors can add an active learning component to their course without the overhead of collecting the materials.
* Flexibility: This approach has been used successfully with students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Appropriate for courses regardless of whether the instructor uses a bottom-up or a top-down approach.
* Completeness: The exercises take the reader from the basics of examining quiet and busy networks through application, transport, network, and link layers to the crucial issues of network security.

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Very Effective Introduction to TCP/IP Networkingby Anonymous

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April 21, 2005: I just wrapped up teaching a networking course. Originally I started with what I still consider to be a great (though somewhat dated) text. Unfortunately, maybe due to the age of the book, maybe due to my teaching style, the students did not seem to be inspired by the material. Then, with a few of the students, I used a number of the labs given in Matthews' book as an experiment to see if her packet trace oriented method pays off. The difference was very noticeable. From now on, her book will be required reading whenever I teach an introductory networking course. Her treatment of the material is not in depth but this is a feature rather than a shortcoming. Students quickly form a solid understanding of the TCP/IP networking infrastructure which then allows the introduction and discussion of more in-depth material. HIGHLY RECOMMENDER.