Computer Networks II Syllabus – A. A. 2009/2010
(Teacher: Luca Becchetti)




Review of IP and TCP/UDP. I

Routing principles and algorithms.

Advanced IP addressing.
 
BOOTP - DHCP

Interior Gateway Routing: RIP and OSPF

(Virtual) Private Networks, Tunneling, NAT.

Firewalls.

Autonomous systems and routing between them - BGP.

Mobile IP.

Basic notions about QoS in IP networks.


This course has no adopted textbook. References:
1. L. L. Peterson e B. S. Davie. Computer Networks, a system approach. Morgan Kaufmann, third edition
2. James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross.
Computer Networking. Addison-Wesley.
3. IBM's TCP/IP Redbook: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/gg243376.html
4. CISCO's document on OSPF: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/104/1.pdf
5. Cisco's GRE, RFCs 2784 and 2890: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2784 (rfc2890)
6. Overview of VPNs: http://www.vpnc.org/vpn-technologies.html
7. CISCO's article on NAT: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_7-3/anatomy.html
8. CISCO's document on NAT:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094831.shtml
9.CISCO's documents on BGP:
- Overview:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800c95bb.shtml
- Attributes and path selection:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/bgp.html
10. CISCO's
white paper on mobile IP:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6590/products_white_paper09186a00800a4444.shtml#wp28489