Syllabus

See Spring 2003 for an idea about this course.

New textbooks:

• Radia Perlman's Interconnections: Bridges, routers, switches and internetworking protocols, 2nd edition.
• Ross Anderson's new book: Security Engineering: A guide to building dependable distributed systems.

• Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture.
• William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin, Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker.

Class notes

• Lecture 1:
  
  • ISO OSI Model: Physical, Link, Network and Transport Layers
  • LAN's v. WAN's
  • Packet v. Connection
• Lecture 2:
  
  • ISO OSI Model: Session, Presentation and Application Layers
  • SDU's and PDU's, Peer-to-peer protocols
• Lecture 3:
  
  • Design criteria for networks
  • Reliable communication using positive acknowledgement
• Lecture 4:
  • Characteristics of a LAN
  • Token ring and CSMA/CD technology
• Lecture 5:
  • Addresses
  • Ethernet;
  • DIX, 802.3, 802.2 SNAP
• Lecture 6:
  • Bridges: learning bridges, discussion of problems
• Lecture 7:
  • Presentation of Spanning Tree Protocol
• Lecture 8
  • L3 issues,
  • Connection oriented: X.25
• Lecture 9
  • Connectionless: IP
  • L2/L3 glue: ARP
• Lecture 10
  • L3 Routing protocols
  • Distance Vector: RIP
  • Link State: OSPF
• Lecture 11
  • packet tranport level: UDP
  • stream tranport level: TCP (notes) See RFC 1122.
• Lecture 12
  • Sockets
  • Read Beej's Guide to Network Programming
• Lecture 13
  • BOOTP and DHCP
  • DNS
  • FTP, TFTP
• Lecture 14
  • RPC
• Lecture 15
  • Firewalls.
  • Packet Filters
  • Dedicated Firewalls
  • Proxy servers
  • Example security architecture
• Lecture 16
  • Authentication.
  • BAN Logic
• Lecture X
  • SSL
  • SSH

Assignment

• Write a program to simulate the spanning tree protocol.
• Write a tftp client/server.
  • network trace
  • RFC 1350
  • Sorcerer's Apprentice Bug: RFC 1123, p. 34
• Write an SSL application, see demos. working demo from above