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Announcements

November 19: Project 2 FAQ is now online.

October 9: Special optional Midterm Review section in Cory 531 from 11-12:30pm on Tuesday Oct 9.

September 6: Office hours today 11-12pm Soda 283E -- Office hours next week by appointment only.

August 31: No office hours today. Please fill out the survey and sign up on the mailing list! Info on the main course site.

August 29: I will be lecturing on Sept 26 on "The Web"

August 28: No sections this week!

Section Notes

Section Weeks 1 & 2: Intro to Sockets

• Slides are here.
• Check out netstat on your computer to see what ports are currently being used.
• Get a head start on socket programming (hint: Project 1!) and give Beej's guide a quick look-over.
• To get the socket functions, you should include: <sys/socket.h> and <sys/types.h>.

Section Week 3: Wireshark

• Here are some of tcpdump's important flags, as extracted from the manpage.
• The slides are here.

Section Week 4: FTP

• The slides are here.

Section Week 5: Contention & CDNs/Replication

• Click on these links for the slides: Contention and CDNs & Replication.

Section Week 6: Midterm Review

• These slides from MIT show the bigger picture and might be of use in understanding layering.

Section Week 7: Routing/Spanning Tree Protocol

• The slides are here.

Section Week 8: State Diagrams

• The slides are here.

Section Week 9: Homework Review

Section Week 10: Congestion Control Review

• Make sure you read and understand the RTT/RTO computations. Review RFC 2988 and ask me any questions that might arise.
• You can find copies of the fairness graph that I showed by looking at other lecture slides online.

Section Week 11: Turkey!

Section Week 12: Min-Max Fair, Leaky/Token Bucket, DiffServ

• Leaky & Token Bucket applet here
• Kurose & Ross applets here