Computer Networking : Principles, Protocols and Practice

Original textbook © October 31, 2011 by Olivier Bonaventure, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license made possible by funding from The Saylor Foundation's Open Textbook Challenge in order to be incorporated into Saylor's collection of open courses available at: http://www.saylor.org.

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This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 The application Layer
4 The transport layer
5 The network layer
6 The datalink layer and the Local Area Networks
7 Glossary
8 Bibliography