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by bb0wn 4152 days ago
Computer Networks by Andrew Tannenbaum is also a great introductory text.

http://cse.hcmut.edu.vn/~minhnguyen/NET/Computer%20Networks%...

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I actually came to the comments just to mention this. This is one of THE best networking books. Shit, it is one of my favorite books PERIOD.
For the past 8 years I been using the Tanenbaum book for teaching my university networking class.

That book is really starting to show a bit of age (the author also recently retired). The Peter Dordal Creative Commons approach needs a bit more polishing. Just did a browse through and comparison, it goes quite deep (e.g. TCP Westwood). However, Tanebaum more applications and uses, including telnet to port 80, audio compression threshold of hearing and runlength encoding.

btw please put the slides online used to present this to students.. Every professor needs to make their own now.

I think you may be mistaking my comment with another. I am not (currently) a teacher (though I do very much like explaining things!).
I hate to poo-poo this link, but I'm pretty sure this book is not free, even in PDF form.
Looking at the TOC, I think the one by Loyola University's associate professor, seems like a better introduction.
I haven't read the linked book, so I can't comment on which is a better introduction.

I will say that having read the Tannenbaum book, it is a very thorough, bottom-up survey, and you will certainly know quite a lot about computer networking after reading it.

2 good network books in one day. Lucky me. I know what I'm doing this weekend.