To: sipb-internet
bcc: sipb-internet-students
Subject: Information for day one of the Internet course.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:57:48 EST
From: elliot


The slides for the first day of the class are now available on the course 
web page (http://www.mit.edu/iap/iap-internet.html). It looks like it will 
be pretty crowded, so please fill in all the desks when you come.
Below is a list of background knowledge that might be useful for the
topics on the first day - don't worry, you can get by without it, but I know
some people might like to get ahead.

Introduction and Overview

  Helpful experience is general background in computer systems (6.001, 6.033,
  etc.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

  Having a general understanding of packet-switching networks is useful. 

IPv6

  Understanding the role of IP in a network is helpful, as is any knowledge
  of IPv4. You may want to glance at RFC791, but don't worry about the
  details. RFC1752 has some of the history any politics of IPv6, if you're
  interested in that.

[How to view RFCs:

  On Athena: attach rfc
             more /mit/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
             (replace XXXX with the number, i.e. 791 or 1752)

  Elsewhere: ftp to ds.internic.net
             cd /rfc
             get rfcXXXX.txt
]

Regards,

elliot