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Learning Python Networking

Learning Python Networking

By : José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Networking

Learning Python Networking

4.2 (6)
By: José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington

Overview of this book

Network programming has always been a demanding task. With full-featured and well-documented libraries all the way up the stack, Python makes network programming the enjoyable experience it should be. Starting with a walk through of today's major networking protocols, through this book, you'll learn how to employ Python for network programming, how to request and retrieve web resources, and how to extract data in major formats over the web. You will utilize Python for emailing using different protocols, and you'll interact with remote systems and IP and DNS networking. You will cover the connection of networking devices and configuration using Python 3.7, along with cloud-based network management tasks using Python. As the book progresses, socket programming will be covered, followed by how to design servers, and the pros and cons of multithreaded and event-driven architectures. You'll develop practical clientside applications, including web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP. These applications will also be implemented through existing web application frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming
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Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
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Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
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Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming

Addressing

This section explains concepts regarding the Network Address Translation (NAT) protocol and introduces the differences between the IPv4 and IPv6 formats.

NAT

This mechanism makes the traffic from the private network appear to be coming from a single valid public internet address, which effectively hides the private addresses from the internet. If you inspect the output of ip addr or ipconfig/all commands, then you will find that your devices are using private range addresses, which would have been assigned to them by your DHCP server or by your router through DHCP address dynamic assignment.

The private address ranges that are usually assigned are as follows:

  • 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255
  • 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255...

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