Final Information and Review Topics
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*  Final will be closed book/notes and no calculators

*  Final will be timed (4:00pm - 6:00pm).  Will be held on
   Monday, 12/8 in Broida 1610.

*  Final will be mostly short answer but will have at least
   a couple of longer questions.  

*  There will be some memorization required (Ethernet, IP, TCP,
   UDP headers, etc.).  However, the goal is more to have you
   apply what you've learned.

*  Final will be cumulative.  See "Topic Lists" for Quizzes #1 
   and #2 for previous lists.

*  Final will be worth 100 points.  The value of each question
   will be given next to the question.  Pay attention to these
   values and manage your time carefully.

*  Review session will be 12/7 starting at 4pm in Engineering I,
   Room 1104.  BRING QUESTIONS!!  Otherwise, there will not be
   anything to go over.



Topics Since Quiz #2
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*  Homework material and reading material are fair game but
   will not be the focus.

*  Transport Layer
   a. Goal
   b. Functions
   c. TCP
      * Header fields AND function of EACH
      * Connection Setup and Teardown
      * Reliability
      * Congestion Control
        - Types of CC (Vegas, Tahoe, Reno)
   d. UDP
   e. Traffic Mix of TCP and UDP

*  Application Layer Protocols
   a. DNS
      * Operation
      * How scalability is achieved
   b. HTTP
      * Operation
      * Parallelism
      * Persistence
      * Pipelining

*  Misc
   a. DHCP
   b. NAT
   c. Tunnelling