need a lab full ofnetworking equipment. This revolutionary text and its accompanyingCD give readers realistic hands-on experience working with networkprotocols, without requiring all the routers, switches, hubs, andPCs of an actual network.Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action provides packettraces of real network activity on CD. Readers open the trace filesusing Ethereal, an open source network protocol analyzer, andfollow the text to perform the exercises, gaining a thoroughunderstanding of the material by seeing it in action.Features* Practicality: Readers are able to learn by doing, without havingto use actual networks. Instructors can add an active learningcomponent to their course without the overhead of collecting thematerials.* Flexibility: This approach has been used successfully withstudents at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Appropriate forcourses regardless of whether the instructor uses a bottom-up or atop-down approach.* Completeness: The exercises take the reader from the basics ofexamining quiet and busy networks through application, transport,network, and link layers to the crucial issues of network security.

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