Introduction:

Development environment : Windows XP with Visual Studio environment

Course Contents

1. An Intro to networking technologies

• Computing Basics
• Networking Fundamentals
• Network Devices
• Network Topologies
  

Network Types

• Local-Area Networks
• Wide-Area Networks
• Other Types of Network
  

Network Media

• Network Media Types
• Cabling the LAN
• Cabling the WAN
  

TCP/IP

• TCP/IP Overview
• Transport Layer
• Establishing a TCP Connection
• TCP/IP Internet Layer Overview
  

IP Addressing and Routing

• IP Networking Addressing
• IP Subnetting and Calculation
• Routing Basics
• Routing Protocols
  

Labs/Exercise with IP address and routing

2 TCP/IP Protocol Services

• What is TCP/IP?
• Transport Services
• Connection-less Services: UDP
• Connection-oriented Services: TCP
• Deciding on a Transport: UDP versus TCP
• Network services


• IP Services
  • ICMP Services
  • Support Protocols & Services
  • Domain Name Service (DNS)
  • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Other Support Protocols
  • Labs/Exercises on TCP/IP, DNS and related commands
    
  
  

3. Network Program Mechanics

• Client-Server Model
• Client & Server Association
• Network Program Sketch
• Open a Socket
• socket()
• Name the Socket
• Associate with Another Socket
• Send and Receive Between Sockets
• Sending Data on a "connected" Socket
• Sending Data on an "unconnected" Socket
• Receiving Data
• Association as Socket Demultiplexer
• Close the Socket
• Client & Server Sketches
• Connection-oriented (TCP) Network Applications
• Connection-less (UDP) Network Applications
• Labs/Exercises on Socket operations and related packet handling
  

4. Operation Modes

• What are Operation Modes?
• Wait on Hold: Blocking
• Call Again Later: Non-blocking
• Request a Call Back: Asynchronous
• Blocking
• Blocking Sockets
• Blocking Functions
• Blocking is Fake
• Blocking Hook Functions
• Canceling Blocking Operations
• Timeouts on Blocking Operations
• No Receive Minimum
• Code Example
• Non-Blocking
• How Do You Make a Socket Non-blocking?
• Success and failure are not absolutes!
• Polling Instead of Blocking
• Explicit Yielding
• Code Example
• Asynchronous
• What Are the Asynchronous Functions?
• Performance Differences
• Platform Differences

Labs/Exercises of packet handling Blocking, Non-Blocking, and
asynchronous modes.

5. Advance Topics Client Server / BSD Socket

• Client /Server model using Sockets
  • BSD Berkeley Socket Data Structure
  • Socket Setup and Communication
  • Byte Ordering , Alignment, and Padding in Socket Programming
  • Framing and Parsing in Socket Programming
  • Any other left out topics and doubts
  
  

Labs/Exercises related to advance topics
* Outline is subject to slight modification and change.