Links related to Fundamentals of Internetworking

• Lab hours

• Companion site for Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 5th Ed, Kurose and Ross (2010)
• Companion site for Practical TCP/IP Sockets in C, 2nd Ed, Donahoo and Calvert (2009)
• Companion site for C: A Reference Manual, 5th Ed, Harbison and Steele (2002)

• The TCP/IP Guide
• IBM Redbook: TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview

• A one page GNU Emacs Reference Card
• A one page GDB Reference Card

• RFCs
• History of the Internet
• Frequently Asked Questions about C programming
• The Top 10 Ways to get screwed by the "C" programming language
• Very basic set of UNIX commands and ideas to get you started quickly.
• Article on the complexity of DNS from ACM Queue.
• ISP Peering article: How the 'Net works: an introduction to peering and transit (Ars Technica, Sept 2008)

• There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly (ars technica, 29 Sep 2010) reviews the history and status of the upcoming IPv6 transition.
• Wi-Fi Spec Offers P2P Connections (InformationWeek, 14 Oct 2009) talks about a new standard that will enable peer-to-peer device connections without the need for a Wi-Fi hotspot.
• ICANN be independent (The Economist, 24 Sep 2009) says that ICANN will have less US Government oversight in a few days.
• Qwest upgrading backbone to 100Gbps (Network World, 2 Sep 2009) discusses the creation and planned deployment of technology for a new standard for Ethernet.
• Final lock of digital website certificates cracked (tgdaily, 30 Dec 2008) discusses the (lack of) security in some certificate authorities. Researchers were able to create a fake certificate authority.
• Cisco launches new video initiative (cnet, 7 Dec 2008) talks about how video is becoming the dominant source of traffic and that Cisco can help build media networks specifically made for video.
• Telecom Knockout (Forbes, 18 Sep 2008) discusses Cogent, its business model, and their multiple tier-one peering showdowns.
• Ethernet data center standards just the start (NetworkWorld, 20 Oct 2008) discusses changing Ethernet to support connectivity for new applications.
• Shadowy Russian Firm Seen as Conduit for Cybercrime (Washington Post, 13 Oct 2007), talks about a company that provides 'bulletproof' hosting for otherwise undesirable organizations and operations.
• The man who owns the Internet (Business 2.0 magazine, 22 May 2007), discusses successful domain name speculation. See also Masters of their Domains (Business 2.0 magazine, 1 Dec 2005) for an earlier discussion about domainers.
• 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders (eWEEK, 16 Nov 2006), discusses email spam and how large numbers of virus infected systems are managed, and which are vulnerable.
• Discussion of page load time optimization (30 Oct 2006)