Computer Networking: Internet Protocols in Action

Acknowledgments

There are many people who contributed to the development of this book. I would like to thank Paul Crockett, my first editor at John Wiley & Sons, for believing in this project and helping to make it a reality. I would also like to thank Senior Editorial Assistant, Simon Durkin, for his many contributions to this book. Executive Editor Bill Zobrist oversaw the final changes to the text and made some excellent suggestions on the introductory material. Senior Editorial Assistant, Bridget Morrisey oversaw the production of the CD. Senior Production Editor, Lisa Wasserman, sheparded the book through the copy-editing and proofreading phases.

I would like to thank my husband Leonard Matthews for his patience and support during this process and my children Robert and Abigail for giving me up to the office more often than they wanted.

I have been developing the exercises that would become this book through several years of teaching computer networking. Hundreds of students in my classes have completed similar exercises and their feedback has been invaluable in developing the text. I would like to thank each student who asked a new question, suggested a new exercise, or answered a question differently yet correctly.

I would like to specifically recognize some students by name: Niranjan Srinivasan, Chong-Suk Yoon, Dachao Wang, Nidthida Perm-Ajchariyawong, and Tingyan Yuan helped me assemble the first small set of formal exercises. Eric Kobelski and Scott Mead collected the wireless ...