Introduction

• Bath LAN with map of the core network
• Statistics of the Bath LAN
• BWE MAN
• JANET
• Megabytes and Mebibytes

History of the Internet

• The Internet Society
• Internet Timeline
• Coke Machines on the Net
• Internet2

OSI Seven Layer model

• ISO and OSI
• IP layers
• Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers
• Tunneling IP over Email

The Link Layer

• Ethernet encapsulation
• IEEE 802.3 (RFC 1042) Includes 100Mb and Gb Ethernet.
• 10Gb Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
• Ethernet numbers
• SLIP
• CSLIP
• PPP and IP over PPP
• PPP numbers
• PPP over Ethernet
• Token Ring 802.5 (RFC 1748)
• Token Passing Bus 802.4 (RFC 1042)
• Wireless 802.11
• The ATM Forum
• PPP over ATM
• The ADSL Forum
• ARP
• RARP
• ARP numbers

The Internet Layer

• IP
• IP TOS
• IP protocol numbers
• IP options: security
• Checksums
• IP Addresses
• Private IP addresses
• Subnetting
• Subnet Numbering
• Guidlines to Allocation of IP addresses
• CIDR
• Reserved IP addresses
• ICMP
• ICMP numbers
• Requirements for Routers
• RIP, RIP version 2
• OSPF
• BGP
• IPv6
• IPv6 addresses, security, authentication, and jumbograms

Broadcasting and Multicasting

• Multicast Reserved Addresses
• IGMP

DNS

• Concepts and specification of DNS.
• ISO 3166 Country Codes
• IANA: Country Code Top Level Domains
• UK NIC
• Subdomains of uk
• CIDR and reverse lookup
• DNS record types
• Reserved TLDs
• Domain name registries around the world
• Universal Whois Server

The Network Layer

• UDP
• TCP
• TCP options numbers
• TCP Options and SACK
• Port numbers
• Nagle
• Silly Window Syndrome
• Slow Start and Congestion Avoidance
• Path MTU Discovery

Application Layer

• Telnet
• FTP
• SMTP
• NFS
• HTTP v1.0, v1.1
• HTML 2.0, 3.0, 3.2, 4.01

Internet Management

• Search for RFCs
• A snapshot of the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet.
• Assigned Numbers, now kept at Assigned Numbers
• IANA
• What is IANA?
• ICANN
• RIPE
• APNIC
• ARIN
• UKERNA
• JANET
• Nominet
• European National Research Networks
• IETF
• ISO 3166 Country Codes
• CERT
• Internet Standards Process
• World Wide Web Consortium

Miscellany

• Llanfair PG (just an advert)
• Privacy Analysis of your Internet Connection
• Defeating Denial of Service Attacks
• Anti Spam Measures
• WAP Forum
• UMTS Forum (CDMA)
• Covert Channels in TCP
• Remote OS Detection via TCP/IP Fingerprinting
• SONET to Sonnet Translation
• Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)
• The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
• Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
• Aberdeen University course syllabus and notes.
• Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia

Lecture Notes

These notes are provided as-is complete with mistakes but no guarantees and cover an extended subset of the course. For definitive details, read Stevens "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1", Tanenbaum "Computer Networks", Third Edition, and the links above.