Also, the online format will allow us to publish updates, enabling the text to keep pace with this rapidly changing field. Over five hundred links to relevant material. As all of us Internet enthusiasts know, much of the best material describing the Internet is in the Internet itself. The hyperlinks of the online version, embedded in a coherent context, provide the reader direct access to some of the best sites relating to computer networking and Internet protocols. The links point not only to RFCs, journal and conference articles, but also to sites that are more pedagogic in nature, including home-brewed pages on particular aspects of Internet technology and articles appearing in online trade magazines.
Professors can assign the material behind the links as supplementary or even required reading.
We expect to check the accuracy of the links several times a year. Interactive learning material. The site contains interactive Java applets, illustrating key networking concepts. Professors can use these interactive features as mini labs. The Web site also provides direct access to search engines for Internet Drafts, and to a newsgroup in which topics of this book are discussed.