Chapter 1, Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming, introduces you to Python's
core networking library with various small tasks and enables you to create your first clientserver
application.
Chapter 2, Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance, discusses various useful techniques
for scaling your client/server applications with default and third-party libraries.
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Chapter 3, IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces, focuses more on administering
your local machine and looking after your local area network.
Chapter 4, Programming with HTTP for the Internet, enables you to create a mini commandline
browser with various features such as submitting web forms, handling cookies,
managing partial downloads, compressing data, and serving secure content over HTTPS.
Chapter 5, Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming, brings you the joy of automating
your FTP and e-mail tasks such as manipulating your Gmail account, and reading or
sending emails from a script or creating a guest book for your web application. We learn to
write email clients with SMTP and POP3.
Chapter 6, Programming Across Machine Boundaries, gives you a taste of automating your
system administration and deployment tasks over SSH. You can run commands, install
packages, or set up new websites remotely from your laptop.
Chapter 7, Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST, introduces you to
various API protocols such as XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST. You can programmatically ask
any website or web service for information and interact with them. For example, you can
search for products on Amazon or Google.
Chapter 8, Network Monitoring and Security, introduces you to various techniques for
capturing, storing, analyzing, and manipulating network packets. This encourages you to
go further to investigate your network security issues using concise Python scripts.
Chapter 9, Network Modeling, introduces you to the world of network simulations and
emulations. You learn to simulate networks with NS-3, and emulate networking systems
with Mininet and its extensions.
Chapter 10, Getting Started with SDN, discusses the enterprise SDN controllers, configuring
them to use in Software-Defined Networks. We learn to develop SDN visually with
MiniEdit, and configure the networks with OpenDaylight, ONOS, Floodlight, Ryu, and
POX controllers.
Chapter 11, Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), introduces how the
networks are secured, and discusses configuring LDAP clients with Python, accounting
aspects of the network, and authentication and access of network services.
Chapter 12, Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions, discusses in detail, configuring largescale
enterprise networking projects, including a few projects from Cisco, Juniper, VMware,
and the Linux Foundation.