What to study with for computer networking

Free first

The textbook's companion site. The authors keep resources for the book at gaia.cs.umass.edu, including interactive problems you can repeat with new numbers.
Your course's own syllabus. It tells you which chapters and which edition your exams use. Check it before you buy.

The textbook

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 9th edition

James Kurose and Keith Ross. Pearson. ISBN 978-0-13-542933-4.

It starts with the applications you use (the web, email, DNS) and works down through transport, network and link layers. That order is why many courses pick it. If your course uses the 8th edition, a used copy of the 8th is usually the cheaper and safer choice, because section numbers differ between editions.

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