Course meets MWF 9:30am - 10:55am in Sci 414, Tu 8:00am - 10:25am in Sci 407 A study of computer networks focusing on the TCP/IP Internet protocols and covering the four layers: physical, data link, network, and transport, in detail. The lectures will focus extensively on the theory of networking and the details of several popular protocols. This course also includes a weekly laboratory which covers network utilities and network programming. More course information can be found at the official department course description webpage: http://www.cs.csub.edu/newsite/CS/CourseDescription/376_Description_v1.htm CMPS 223 Computer Networks, 4th edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-066102-3.