CRIM 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Routing Information Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, Usenet
3 May 2016
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You are required to send email to your tutor (stephanie_lau@sfu. ca or george_weir@sfu. ca ) With the subject line: crim 218 week 2. Indicate one aspect from today"s class that you"ve found most interesting and why. Indicate one aspect from today"s class that you found difficult to understand and why. This is considered part of your participation. Email must be sent before monday 18th. Internet applications are built to exchange information between local and remote machines. Usually a user at a local machine wants to retrieve information from a remote location. This is achieved by sending a request from a suitable local software program to a corresponding remote software program. The user"s local program is termed a "client" because it wants a specific service. The remote program is termed a "server," because it is designed to provide the required service. In relation to these roles, we use the following terminology: Client machine a computer running such a client program.
