Web References for Networks and Networking
| A Glossary of Networking Terms: | |
| http://npstc.du.edu/documents/glossary.html | |
| The best site for protocol definitions I have ever seen!: | |
| http://www.protocols.com/index.html | |
| Another site discussing protocols: | |
| Communications_and_Networking/Protocols | |
| The protocol that made Windows for Workgroups happen: | |
| http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/netbeui.htm | |
| An explanation of IP addressing: | |
| http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/IP_address.html | |
| A good introduction to the TCP/IP protocol suite: | |
| http://www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM | |
| A discussion of packet switched networks and contrasts to others: | |
| http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/packet_switching.html | |
| A description of the OSI model for networking: | |
| http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/osi_prot.htm | |
| The Technical Documents area of the BlackBox site: | |
| http://www.blackbox.com/tech_docs/tech_docs_index.html | |
| A list of all IEEE 802.x committees and links to their home pages: | |
| http://www.ieee802.org/dots.html | |
| Simply the best explanation of subnetting that I have found: | |
| http://pub141.ezboard.com/ftotalseminarsfrm7.showMessage?topicID=176.topic | |
| A standard tutorial on subnetting: | |
| http://www.learntosubnet.com/ | |
| A very nice packet sniffer for download (collect and dissect packets): | |
| http://www.ethereal.com | |
| A great collection of DNS and IP address utilities: | |
| http://www.dnsstuff.com/ | |
| A good source for cable applications and specifications: | |
| http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LANs/cabling-faq/ | |
| A utility that keeps track of the DHCP address assigned by your ISP: | |
| http://ipmonster.com/ | |
| All that you ever wanted to know about IPv6 addressing, and more: | |
| The IPng Working Group | |
| The Windows IPv6 Project | |
| The IPv6 Forum | |
| The IPv6 Working Group | |
| O'Reilly IPv6 Tutorial | |
| IPv6 Information from 3Com (pdf) | |
| How Stuff Works | |
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