To prepare yourselves for the inter/networks session
After you have done the traceroute task, look over the readings on this page to prepare yourself for the subsequent session.
look over The Internet, a network of networks
Read these sections of How Internet Infrastructure Works by Jeff Tyson in How Stuff Works [they are short]
- Introduction to How Internet Infrastructure Works
- A Hierarchy of Networks
- A Network Example
- Bridging The Divide
- Backbones
- Internet Protocol: IP Addresses
- Internet Protocol: Domain Name System
- Uniform Resource Locators
- A DNS Example
- Clients and Servers
- Ports
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You might want to go back over these to refresh yourselves with what we talked about today
read What does open source mean? in How Stuff Works
- Introduction to How Ethernet Works
- Why Network?
- Local Area vs. Wide Area
- The Ethernet
- Ethernet Basics
- Ethernet Terminology
- Ethernet Medium
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