Cisco's Internetworking Technology Handbook

[SiliconJon]

A comprehensive guide to networking terms, technology, and techniques.

Internetworking Technology Handbook

• Internetworking Basics
  • What Is an Internetwork?
    • History of Internetworking
      
    • Internetworking Challenges
  • Open System Interconnection [OSI] Reference Model
    
  • Information Formats
    
  • ISO Hierarchy of Networks
    
  • Connection-Oriented and Connectionless Network Services
    
  • Internetwork Addressing
    • Data Link Layer Addresses
      
    • MAC Addresses
      
    • Mapping Addresses
      
    • Network Layer Addresses
      
    • Hierarchical Versus Flat Address Space
      
    • Address Assignments
      
    • Addresses Versus Names
  • Flow Control Basics
    
  • Error-Checking Basics
    
  • Multiplexing Basics
    
  • Standards Organizations
• Introduction to LAN Protocols
  • What Is a LAN?
    
  • LAN Protocols and the OSI Reference Model
    
  • LAN Media-Access Methods
    
  • LAN Transmission Methods
    
  • LAN Topologies
    
  • LAN Devices
• Introduction to WAN Technologies
  • What Is a WAN?
    
  • Point-to-Point Links
    
  • Circuit Switching
    
  • Packet Switching
    
  • WAN Virtual Circuits
    
  • WAN Dialup Services
    
  • WAN Devices
    • WAN Switch
      
    • Access Server
      
    • Modem
      
    • CSU/DSU
      
    • ISDN Terminal Adapter
• Bridging Basics
  • What Are Bridges and Switches?
    
  • Link Layer Device Overview
    
  • Types of Bridges
    
  • Types of Switches
    • ATM Switch
      
    • LAN Switch
• Routing Basics
  • What Is Routing?
    
  • Routing Components
    • Path Determination
      
    • Switching
  • Routing Algorithms
    • Design Goals
      
    • Algorithm Types
  • Network Protocols
• Network Management Basics
  • What Is Network Management?
    • A Historical Perspective
  • Network Management Architecture
    
  • ISO Network Management Model
    • Performance, Configuration, Accounting, Fault, & Security Management
• Ethernet
  • Background, Ethernet—A Brief History, & Ethernet Network Elements
  • Ethernet Network Topologies and Structures
  • The IEEE 802.3 Logical Relationship to the ISO Reference Model
  • The Ethernet MAC Sublayer
  • The Basic Ethernet Frame Format, Frame Transmission, & Frame Reception
  • The VLAN Tagging Option
  • The Ethernet Physical Layers
  • Encoding for Signal Transmission
  • The 802.3 Physical Layer Relationship to the ISO Reference Model
  • 10-Mbps Ethernet—10Base-T, 100 Mbps—Fast Ethernet, &1000 Mbps—Gigabit Ethernet
  • Network Cabling—Link Crossover Requirements & System Considerations
  • Choosing UTP-Based Components and Media Category
  • Auto-negotiation—An Optional Method for Automatically Configuring Link Operational Modes
  • Network Switches Provide a Second, and Often Better, Alternative to Higher Link Speeds in CSMA/CD Network Upgrades
  • Multispeed NICs & Choosing 1000Base-X Components and Media
  • Multiple-Rate Ethernet Networks
  • Link Aggregation—Establishing Higher-Speed Network Trunks
  • Network Management & Migrating to Higher-Speed Networks
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
  • Introduction, Standards
  • FDDI Transmission Media
  • FDDI Specifications
  • FDDI Station-Attachment Types
  • FDDI Fault Tolerance
  • Dual Ring
  • Optical Bypass Switch
  • Dual Homing
  • FDDI Frame Format & FDDI Frame Fields
  • Copper Distributed Data Interface
  
  
• Token Ring/IEEE 802.5
  
  
• Frame Relay
  
  
• High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI)
  
  
• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Overview
  
  
• Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
  
  
• Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
  
  
• Dial-Up Technologies
  
  
• Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC)and Derivatives
  
  
• X.25 Overview
  
  
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
  
  
• Voice/Data Integration Technologies
  
  
• Wireless
  
  
• Digital Subscriber Line
  
  
• Cable Technologies
  
  
• Transparent Bridging
  
  
• Mixed Media Bridging
  
  
• Source-Route Bridging (SRB)
  
  
• LAN Switching
  
  
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Switching
  
  
• MPLS
  
  
• Data-Link Switching (DLSw)
  
  
• Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Protocols
  
  
• Internet Protocols (IP)
  
  
• IPv6
  
  
• Xerox Network Systems
  
  
• NetWare Protocols
  
  
• Apple Talk
  
  
• Banyan VINES
  
  
• IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) Protocols
  
  
• DECnet
  
  
• Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
  
  
• IBM System Network Architecture (SNA) Routing
  
  
• Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)
  
  
• Internet Protocol (IP) Multicast
  
  
• NetWare Link-Services Protocol (NLSP)
  
  
• Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Routing Protocol
  
  
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
  
  
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
  
  
• Resource-Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
  
  
• Quality of Service (QoS)
  
  
• Simple Multicast Routing Protocol (SMRP)
  
  
• Security Technologies
  
  
• Directory-Enabled Networking
  
  
• Networking Caching Technologies
  
  
• IBM Network Management
  
  
• Remote Monitoring (RMON)
  
  
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  
  
• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
  
  
• Multiservice Access Technologies
  
  
• Tag Switching

[Whir]

Sticked for awesomeness of linkage.

[SiliconJon]

My first sticky, thanks xD

But I can't celebrate now, as I have a backlog of accounting homework to do...

[GroundZero3]

thanks!

[famosbrown]

Thanks a lot! This sticky will come in handy when I start studying for my Cisco certs after I'm done with the Microsoft ones .

Famos

[SiliconJon]

Yeah, accounting is done, with 12 minutes to spare! And glad to help. I don't recall what I was searching for when I found this, but it's quite the goldmine of information.

Would the addition of some keywords for each chapter be helpful? It would produce more hits for people searching the forum for more precise items, and provide for a more comprehensive description of each chapter, but it would increase the size of the thread significantly (2-4X as long). I could greatly reduce the size of the extended post if there were a way to do hover menus in vb code, or if such HTML code could be included into the post, but I don't see a way to do that at the moment.

[GroundZero3]

If your working on Cisco equipment this litte tool will help you out. Should be used by everyone!

http://ncat.sourceforge.net/

[msterzer]

I find the 7 layer OSI model a hard load to choke down and retain. If you're going to do a Cisco class you have to memorize it. I suppose it has its points but so far the only point I can see is if you need to pass a Cisco test. Then it becomes real iimportant. As you move through the Cisco training the layers become bigger with more things added to them and more and more. Jeez. Otherwise I really like the Cisco classes. Good find. Thanks for the links. I'm sure I'll be referring back to them more than once.

[SiliconJon]

I had a hard time plugging the layers into my brain, especially with different layer models for different aspects of technology. But it does have its application (er, applicable) benefits.

[neme_spo]

Very nice!