IK2218/EP2120 HT2012

Reading instructions for Forouzan TCP/IP Protocol Suite, Fourth 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. Fundamental.

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: Introduction to Network Layer
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 5: IPv4 addresses
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 6: Delivery, forwarding and routing
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 7: Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4)
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 8: Address resolution protocol (ARP)
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 9: Internet Control Message Protocol Version 4 (ICMPv4)
    Read all.

Chapter 10: Mobile IP
    Skip

Chapter 11: Unicast routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, and BGP)
    Read but the slides contain more relevant material
    11.6 OSPF: Skip detailed packet descriptions
    11.8 BGP: Skip detailed packet descriptions

Chapter 12: Multicasting and Multicast Routing Protocols
    11.2 Multicast addressing. Otherwise skip

Chapter 13: Introduction to the Transport Layer
    Read all. Fundemantal.

Chapter 14: UDP
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 15: TCP 
    Read all. Fundamental.

Chapter 16: SCTP
    Skip

Chapter 17: Introduction to the application layer
    Read all.

Chapter 18: Host configuration: DHCP
    Read all sections.
    The book only handles stateful autoconfiguration.

Chapter 19: DNS
    Read except Sec 19.7
    Fig 19.12 is wrong
    Complement with Ch 1 and 3 of Bind 9 reference manual.
    Slides contain more relevant material

Chapter 20: Remote Login: TELNET and SSH
    Read all.

Chapter 21: File transfer: FTP and TFTP
    Read all.
    
Chapter 22: World Wide Web and HTTP
    Read all.

Chapter 23: Electronic Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP and MIME
    Read all.

Chapter 24: Network management: SNMP
    Read 14.1, 24.2. Rest optional. Read a course on network management (e.g., EP2300).

Chapter 25:Multimedia
    Read all.

Chapter 26: IPv6 addressing

Chapter 27: IPv6 protocol
    Read all. 
    Section 27.3: IPv6 transition is out-dated except for the dual stack.

Chapter 28 ICMPv6
    Read all.

Chapter 29: Cryptography and Network Security
    Skip: Read a network security course!

Chapter 30: Internet security
    Skip