Computer Networking

Computer Networking is something that caught my interest and I love digging deeper to understand how things work. This site is a knowledge base I maintain to keep a track of my learnings. Feel free to contact me and view my networking résumé.

Articles

• Homa (Data Center Transport Protocol)
  • Final report (summary)
  • Problems with TCP
  • Homa’s Features
  • Homa’s Message Sequence Scenarios
  • Homa’s Algorithms
• Secure Shell (SSH)
  • Examining a SSH Connection using Wireshark
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • TLS 1.2 Handshake
  • TLS 1.3 Handshake
• How Routing is Done Using Both IP and MAC Addresses
• Turning a Laptop into a Server
• Domain Name System (DNS)
  • DNS Infrastructure
  • DNS Resource Records
  • (Distributed) Denial of Service
  • DNSSEC
• IPSec

Talks

• MAC and IP Routing

Notes and Collections

• TCP
  • Congestion Control Algorithms
  • TCP Versions
  • TCP Head of Line Blocking
• BGP
• HTTP
• IP
• e-mail
• ARP Spoofing
• Cryptography
  • PGP
  • Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
  • Digital Certificates and Certificate Revocation (OCSP and CRL)
• OPAQUE
• OSI layers
• Protocols
• What happens on hitting enter on a link in the browser?
• What port does ping work on?
• Where does my computer get the time from?
  • Talk on tracing back in history to find out how we know that the time we’re using is accurate!
• Hardware
  • Routers vs Switches vs Hubs vs Modems vs Access Points vs Gateways
• Tor
• Powers of two

General Resources

• Network Direction
• Hussein Nasser
• Explained from First Principles: The Internet
• Computerphile
• Books
  • Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach (8th Edition)
    • Videos, notes and other material
  • Computer Networks by Tanenbaum (5th Edition)
  • Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, by Olivier Bonaventure
• Tools
  • Wireshark
  • tcpdump
    • Crash course
  • Curl
    • Mastering the Curl Command Line
• RFCs
  • RFC Editor
  • Datatracker
• History of the Internet
• Research papers
  • The Internet that Wasn’t (OSI)
  • The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols
• Docker Networking Crash Course (More on Docker)