Class emails

Here are selected emails sent to the class this year, for your reference. This is just an unstructured text file with the newest message first.

Resources

Resources such as URLs, programs, etc. related to this course can be found here. They are intended as background reading, and may help you if something in the lectures or text book is not clear. Some of them are a few years old now.

• Textbook resource website, including errata, for Shay, 3rd edition.
• Cris Calude Lecture notes: Handout, Interactive, Exercises
• An interactive demonstration of the Fourier transform.
• A description (PDF) of parity checks and checksums.
  (This is a chapter from a book being written by Peter Fenwick.)
• An introduction (PDF) to Information Theory.
  (These are notes from lectures that Peter Fenwick gave some years ago.)
• Notes on logarithms (and a few other things as well...).
• WinDump binary for Assignment 1 Tutorial
• Handout on Ethernet and Spread Spectrum
• Handout on 802.2 LANs.
• Handout on IEEE802.2 (PDF), describing Service Access Points, SNAP headers, carrying other protocols, and so on.
• Handout on Virtual Circuits (PDF), explaining some of the terms and how Virtual Circuits are constructed.
• Handout on Units (PDF), explaining how big and how small, and how long lots of things take to happen.
• The slides from a seminar (in PDF format) given here at Auckland by Bob Fink, one of the leaders in the design and implementation of IPv6. There is far more here than is necessary; you need know only what is in the text, but this may help some people.
  Comment from Brian Carpenter: A few small points in that talk are out of date now. Here's a more recent general talk on IPv6.
• A discussion of Ethernet number conventions and formats, extracted from RFC 1340 "Assigned Numbers".
• If you need this or any other RFC document, and it isn't linked from the resource page, try the RFC Editor site, the IETF site, or this mirror site in Australia.