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Traditional textbooks on networking are so verbose and tedious... often very focused on theory and less helpful for every-day networking. I would love to see c

Traditional textbooks on networking are so verbose and tedious... often very focused on theory and less helpful for every-day networking. I would love to see courses based on tools like shadow [1], encouraging a more hands-on learning experience. Network simulators seem pretty cool, but it is hard to benefit from them using the docs alone. With shadow it seems I would be able to run actual software on a simulated network. -- 1: https://github.com/shadow/shadow?tab=readme-ov-file#why-is-shadow-needed https://github.com/shadow/shadow?tab=readme-ov-file#why-is-s...

vedranm 2y ago
My group used to teach Computer Networks at a university ([1] gives a fair overview of the scope if you know Croatian or use a bit of Google Translate). We used CORE and PHP built-in web server [2] for the basic course. IMHO, stuff like Shadow is too overwhelming for the introductory course, but we planned to use it together with ns-3 and SimGrid for the advanced course (which in the end we never got a chance to develop for unrelated reasons). [1] https://group.miletic.net/hr/nastava/kolegiji/RM/ https://group.miletic.net/hr/nastava/kolegiji/RM/ [2] https://coreemu.github.io/core/ https://coreemu.github.io/core/