IK2218/EP2120 HT2012 

Reading instructions for Forouzan TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Third edition.

Please use the lecture notes as primary source of what is relevant.

Chapter 1: History and Standards. 
    Read all.

Chapter 2: Layering. 
    Read all.

Chapter 3: Link layer. 
    The chapter deals with the link layer as background material to the course.
    The course will not cover link layers, but you need to know most of this.

Chapter 4: IP classful addressing. 
    Section 4.1-4.3: Read.
    Section 4.4 is of historical interest only

Chapter 5: IP classless addressing. 
    Read all.

Chapter 6: Delivery, forwarding and routing
    Read all.

Chapter 7: ARP and RARP
    Read all.

Chapter 8: IP
    Read all.

Chapter 9: ICMP
    Read all.

Chapter 10: IGMP
    Skip

Chapter 11: UDP
    Read all.

Chapter 12: TCP 
    Read all.

Chapter 13: SCTP
    Skip

Chapter 14: Unicast routing protocols
    Read but complement with the lecture slides and lab description
    14.5 OSPF: Skip detailed packet descriptions
    14.7 BGP: Skip detailed packet dscriptions

Chapter 15: Multicast routing
    Skip

Chapter 16: DHCP
    Read all sections.
    BOOTP is in itself not relevant but necessary for historical reasons
    in order to understand DHCP
    The book only handles stateful autoconfiguration.

Chapter 17: DNS
    Read except Sec 17.8
    Fig 17.11 is wrong
    Complement with Ch 1 and 3 of Bind 9 reference manual.
    Slides contain more relevant material

Chapter 18: Telnet
    Read all.

Chapter 19: TFTP
    Read all.
    
Chapter 20: SMTP,POP and IMAP
    Read all.

Chapter 21: SNMP
    Read all.

Chapter 22: HTTP
    Read all.

Chapter 23: IP over ATM
    Skip.

Chapter 24: Mobile IP
    Skip

Chapter 25:Multimedia
    Read all.

Chapter 26: VPNs and NAT
    Read all.
    Note that NAT figures 26.7 and 26.8 may be confusing. Use the
    figures in the lecture slides instead

Chapter 27: IPv6 
    Read all.  Note that mentions link-local addresses
    and router solicitaions/advertisements are mentioned, but not the
    dynamics of stateless autoconfiguration.
    Section 27.3: IPv6 transition is out-dated except for the dual stack.

Chapter 28: Network Security
    Skip: Read a network security course!