Links to Networking Sites

General

History of the Internet PPT Presentation

IEEE standards for LANs and MANs

RFC index for TCP/IP standards

TechFest

How Stuff Works

WildPackets' Technical Compendium

Webopedia Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms

Wireshark protocol analyzer

Russ Haynal's "Internet: The Big Picture"

Rate My Network Diagram

IT Salary Survey

 

Links related to Cisco Certification and Cisco Products

Cisco Systems

Cisco Networking Academy

CCNA Exam

Registering for the exam at Prometric

Registering for the exam at PearsonVue

The MPC860 processor in 2600 routers

The IDT RC32300 processor in 2950 switches

 

Links related to measuring network performance

The Internet Health Report

AFN Statistics and Throughput Measuring Tools

DSL Speed Test (can also be used for technologies other than DSL)

 

Links related to optical networking

Optical networking: The next generation

How Fiber Optics Work

 

Links related to wireless networking

Press release from IEEE when 802.11g went standard in June, 2003

Making the Choice: 802.11a or 802.11g

Wireless glossary and white papers

Hedy Lamarr's contribution

Breaking WEP

Wireless LAN Security

 

Links related to Ethernet

Big Pipe on Campus (10-Gbps Ethernet on UTP at Ohio State)

More good stuff on 10-Gbps on UTP from KRONE

Vendor codes

EtherTypes

Ethernet Turns 30 Gracefully

Spanning Tree Algorithm (used by Ethernet switches)

 

Links related to IP addressing, subnetting, routing, checksums

Chuck Sumeria's "Understanding IP Addressing"

Charles C. Botsford's "Learn to Subnet"

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, IP Address Services

The TCP/IP Guide

IP Chicken

GeoBytes

Commerce Department's request for comments on IPv6

Dijkstra's Algorithm

Packet Clearing House tutorials on anycast routing

Interesting article about IP checksums

 

Links related to TCP

Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Implementation Details

TCP Reset vulnerability

TCP Selective ACK option