Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, And Practice

Shared by Elif Demir • computer science, computer networks • 2011

This textbook came from a frustration of its main author. Many authors chose to write a textbook because there are no textbooks in their field or because they are not satisfied with the existing textbooks. This frustration has produced several excellent textbooks in the networking community. The frustrations that motivated this book are different. When the main author started to teach networking in the late 1990s, students were already Internet users, but their usage was limited. Students were still using reference textbooks and spent time in the library. Today’s students are completely differ