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Welcome to CS3000, an introduction to computer networks. Topics include:Introduction to the operation of computer networks. Communication standards and protocols, network layers, data and packet transmission, internetworking, network applications, emerging technologies, software monitoring tools, social and ethical issues. (3 units)
Prerequisite: CS 2500.
Announcements and Upcoming Events
| Date | Announcement or News |
|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | We will have a quiz during class time on Monday, 8/31. It will not take all of class time; we will start with more of Chapter 2. Closed book, closed computers. Students may have a 4 x 6 inch card of notes (writing on both sides ok). "Warriors of the Net" (12 min) movie I showed the start of before class today. Some of the words the movie uses are "old school" these days... but the movie is great fun! |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Welcome to CS 3000! |
| Assignment | Points |
|---|---|
| Lab 1 | 10 |
| Lab 2 | 15 |
| Lab 3 | 15 |
| Lab 4 | 15 |
CSU Stanislaus VPN
If you want to connect to the campus VPN to work with PhpMyAdmin,
instructions for CSU students on how to connect to the campus
VPN (Virtual Private Network) are here: "OIT's Installing Global Protect VPN" article.
- Computer networks and internets : with Internet applications by Douglas Comer
- Safari Books On-line, a large collection of technical books available via
the WWW. Access by visiting the
CSU Stanislaus Library and following links.
Titles that caught the professor's eye: TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 and The Sockets Networking API by Stevens et al. - Linux Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition by Daniel J Barrett
- The Linux Command Line, 3rd Ed by William E. Shotts
ACM DL available when you are physically on campus, or via links on the CSU Stanislaus library website otherwise. "BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control: Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time" by By Neal Cardwell, Yuchung Cheng, C. Stephen Gunn, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, and Van Jacobson. Communications of the ACM, Feb 2017. On-line Resources (some of these are mentioned in our textbook)
- Student resources for Kurose / Ross textbook (8th Ed)
- TCP Congestion Control: A Systems Approach by Peterson, Brakmo, and Davie (free textbook!)
- IGRP description, Cisco's alternative to the RIP and OSPF routing protocols
- Resources collected by D. Comer, the author of another popular networking textbook
- Internet RFC collection (Request For Comments)
- ICAAN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers US Radio Frequency Allocations chart, from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- Mentioned in our textbook:
- Wigle.net: Wireless Geographic Logging Engine
- Nmap
- University of Oregon Route Views Project
- "Why Phishing Emails Keep Working on Smart People" (Blog@CACM, 4/10/2026)