Networking Glossary Home

• Connection Architectures (Client/Server, Host/Terminal, etc.)
• Ethernet - IEEE 802.3
  • Frame Formats
    • IEEE 802.3
    • Version II
    • IEEE 802.3
    • Novell Proprietary ("802.3 Raw")
  • Media Access
  • Collisions
  • Propagation Delay
  • Frame Corruption
  • Interframe Gap
  • Signal Encoding
    • perspective
  • Packets and Protocols
  • Addresses and Names
• Fast Ethernet
  • Introduction To Fast Ethernet
  • Differences Between 100 Mb/ sec and 10 Mb/ sec Ethernet
  • Integration Of 100 Mb/ sec Ethernet Into Existing 10 Mb/ sec networks
  • Migration from 10 Mb/ sec to 100 Mb/ sec Ethernet
  • Data Encoding
    • LAYERS TOPIC
  • Troubleshooting
  • Signal Encoding
    • MLT-3 MultiLevel Transition
    • NRZI Non-Return to Zero, Inverted
    • T4 Multiplexing
    • 4B/5B And 8B/6T Code Representations
• FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
  • Introduction
  • Operation Of The FDDI Ring
  • Protocol Analysis Techniques For FDDI
  • The FDDI Physical Medium Dependent (PMD) Layer
  • Measuring Decibels
• Fiber Optics - A General Discussion
• Gigabit Ethernet And Fibre Channel Technology
• Interconnect Devices: Repeater, Bridge, Switch, Router
  • Bridge Technology
    • Transparent Bridges
    • Learning Bridges
    • Spanning Tree Algorithm
    • Bridge Loops
  • Switch Technology
• LLC - IEEE 802.2 Logical Link Control
  • Introduction
  • Defining "Connectionless" and "Connection-Oriented"
  • Type I LLC
  • Setting Up A Type II LLC Connection
  • Transmitting And Acknowledging Data In Type II LLC
  • Protocol Analysis Techniques For Type II LLC
  • The Bits In The LLC Header
  • Type I LLC Commands And Responses
  • Type II LLC Commands And Responses
  • Viewing LLC With Your Protocol Analyzer
  • The Rationale For Using A Reliable Data Link
• Networking Technical Reference
  • Ethertype values
  • Service Access Point (SAP) identifiers
  • Assigned Port Numbers for TCP and UDP (RFC 1700)
    • Read RFC 1700
  • Humorous RFCs
  • Courseware Design & Development
• The TCP/IP Protocol Family
  • Internet Protocol (IP)
    • IP Addressing
    • IP Routing Functions
      • RFC 1812
    • Subnet Masking
    • Address Classes
    • Creating Subnets
    • Special Address Masks
    • Reserved Address List
    • VLSM - Variable Length Subnet Masking
    • Troubleshooting TCP/IP Networks
    • IP Routing Tables
    • Physical Addresses
    • IP Type Of Service
  • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
    • RFC 792
    • Destination Unreachable
    • RFC 1349
    • Redirect
• VoIP
  • VoIP Network Hardware
  • VoIP Protocols
• WAN
  • WAN T1 Overview
  • Physical aspects of T1/E1
  • Link Layer of T1
  • Troubleshooting
  • Tables
  • Glossary of terms
  • WAN Addresses and Names
  • Physical addresses
  • Logical addresses
  • Symbolic names
  • Other classes of addresses
• Wireless LAN / 802.11 WLAN
  • Signal Characteristics
  • Packets and Protocols
  • Addresses and Names
  • Packet Types