Computer Networking

23h 58m 29s
English
Paid

The Internet - along with all the applications it supports, such as the web - has become one of the most significant driving forces of technological progress in our time.

In this course, we will examine the key protocols that enable the operation of the internet, the web, and other applications in the field of computer networks. This will give you the opportunity not only to utilize modern networking technologies to their fullest potential but also to contribute to their development in the future.

About the Author: Oz Nova (csprimer.com)

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Hello, my name is Oz. I am a computer science instructor and a father who is homeschooling his children, living in rural Australia. Since 2015, I have been running Bradfield, a small professional school that was originally located in San Francisco and is now fully online. Starting in 2024, I am focusing my energy on csprimer.com - a flexible schedule computer science curriculum. Previously, I worked as a software engineer and CTO, including co-founding Vida Health.

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All Course Lessons (61)
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001 Shout server Demo
14:15
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002 HTTP header server
27:07
3
003 Simple DNS client
50:43
4
004 The life of a packet (aka what happens when)
01:00:24
5
005 What is a socket
12:33
6
006 What do we mean by network layers (OSI model)
13:57
7
007 What is a system call (high level explanation)
01:44
8
008 Why packets typically have an MTU of (ie size of up to) 1500 bytes
04:15
9
009 Postels law
01:20
10
010 What does it mean to bind to a port
03:54
11
011 How do I know what socket system calls a library is making
04:50
12
012 The many differences between TCP and UDP
04:41
13
013 Latency vs throughput
08:14
14
014 A quick tour of netcat
02:44
15
015 What is the loopback interface (ie localhost)
01:36
16
016 HTTP proxy basic proxying
50:55
17
017 HTTP proxy persistent connections
01:33:25
18
018 HTTP proxy concurrency
01:19:54
19
019 HTTP proxy features
01:15:22
20
020 A brief overview of HTTP2
23:02
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021 A brief history of how HTTP and browsers came to be
12:07
22
022 Proxies gateways and tunnels
09:06
23
023 Understanding HTTP headers and answering your own questions
22:16
24
024 Using the setsockopt system call
07:51
25
025 The motivation and implementation of HTTP persistent connections
08:49
26
026 DNS client message compression
38:34
27
027 DNS client reverse DNS
18:09
28
028 DNS client more record types
01:09:19
29
029 DNS client tracing resolution
01:07:38
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030 Hostnames before DNS a single HOSTSTXT file
09:29
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031 How do programs know which DNS server to use
05:15
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032 The structure of a hostname
04:15
33
033 Understanding DNS zones and zone transfers
06:29
34
034 DNS classes 65535 alternatives to the internet
03:34
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035 How recursive resolvers can be used in reflection attacks
09:12
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036 What is the TTL in DNS and was it a good idea
09:49
37
037 Root TLD and other authoritative name server roles
18:44
38
038 Lossy download
39:25
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039 Reliable transport
01:27:03
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040 How does TCP compute its timeout interval
19:40
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041 Whats the big idea behind QUIC
15:17
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042 Did Van Jacobson save the internet (Anoverview of congestion control)
17:33
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043 The basic difference between flow control and congestion control
05:46
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044 The motivation behind TCP sliding window
09:53
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045 Whats the purpose of the TCP handshake
08:57
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046 How the initial sequence number (ISN) is chosen in TCP
09:40
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047 How TCP provides reliable delivery
31:09
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048 Flow control and buffering in TCP a demonstration
29:01
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049 Traceroute
01:03:49
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050 Traceroute autonomous systems
45:40
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051 Traceroute ICMP probes
30:55
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052 Traceroute customization
01:09:07
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053 An overview of traceroute ping and mtr
18:46
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054 Why the time to live in IPv4 is essentially a hop count
05:46
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055 What exactly is a private IP address
05:14
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056 Autonomous systems and the structure of the internet
10:52
57
057 Understanding CIDR subnets
14:16
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058 The major differences between IPv4 and IPv6
11:33
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059 How routers decide how to forward a packet
11:47
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060 The basic idea behind NAT
13:33
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061 The difference between fragmentation and segmentation
08:16
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