We have decided not to use the book specified in the course syllabus. Although the book has its merits it is a bit dated, making large parts of it useless for our purpose. Instead we will use the following material that is available online.
Switching and local area networks (LAN)
Cisco Systems, “How LAN switches work,” Aug. 2007; www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a7af3.shtml.
Minlan Yu, J. Rexford, Xin Sun, Sanjay Rao and N. Feamster, “A survey of virtual LAN usage in campus networks”, Communications Magazine, IEEE, vol.49, no.7, pp.98-103, July 2011, doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2011.5936161
IP routing and address allocation
Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot and E. Lear, Address allocation for private internets, IETF RFC 1918, Feb. 1996; www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt.
V. Fuller and T. Li, Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): the Internet address assignment and aggregation plan, IETF RFC 4632, Aug. 2006; www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4632.txt.
Cisco Systems, “IP addressing and subnetting for new users ,” Sep. 2005; www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800a67f5.shtml.
Cisco Systems, “OSPF design guide,” Aug. 2005; www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_white_paper09186a0080094e9e.shtml.
Cisco Systems, “Specifying a next hop IP address for static routes,” Oct. 2006; www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a00800ef7b2.shtml.
