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Co-author of the book here. Thanks for the comment. I agree, it does seem surprising to miss NAT. I opened an issue (which we will address at some point): https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/issues/75

5 years ago, the authors put an older edition of the book (5.4?) as a free download from GitHub: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/format/publishe... Direct link to an older PDF: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/blob/format/publishe...

Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie have open-sourced their book - Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book). I am curious, what is everyone's preferred book on CN? The only one I have read is Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross. When learning CN for the first time, I like their approach of beginning with the application layer and moving towards the physical layer. Their figures are also quite intuitive.

It's available under the CC BY 4.0 license, you can find the source here: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book There are instructions in the README to build epub, html and other formats (including a giant manpage).

PDF and eBook versions at https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/master/publishe... > Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video on demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.

> https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/master/publishe... epub, mobi & pdf