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Monday, 26 August 2002 21:00

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Local Area Networks (LAN's)

Structured Cabling

Category 5 Testing

Scope Communications re Category 5 testing http://www.scope.com/whitepap/whitepap.htm

Ethernet Vendor Code Tables

There is also an Ethernet type code lookup script at http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/~ercm20/cgi/ether-codes.cgi that apparently uses the first two links above.

Ethernet (10 and 100 Mbps)

Some very good info may be found at

http://www.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet.html

Token Ring

http://www.hstra.com/whitepapers.html - contains some good white papers on high speed token ring
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/switch/token/tech/first_wp.htm -has information on first generation token ring vs second generation token ring
http://www.3com.com/nsc/500603.html - some information on token ring switching

FDDI

http://www.networking.ibm.com/case/case1.html - shows some FDDI problems and offers IBM solutions
http://www.data.com/Tutorials/FDDI_Fundamentals.html - has some information on the fundamentals of FDDI

Gigabit Ethernet

http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/ge.html
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mktswitch/gig/tech/gigbt_tc.htm
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/146/february98/7.html
http://www.3com.com/technology/layer3sw2/layer3sw2b.html
http://www.3com.com/technology/layer3sw2/layer3sw2c.html
http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/technology/whitepapers/gige_97/papers97_toc.html#toc - a site that provides an overview of gigabit ethernet
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/switch/gig/tech/gesol_wp.htm - a site that provides useful information on gigabit ethernet
http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/technology/faq.html - this site answers some questions on Gigabit Ethernet

ATM

The Cisco StrataCom documentation is generally very useful for solid but readable Frame Relay and ATM information, while not the first place one might perhaps look... Two good examples of this:
- http://cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wanbu/8_5/switch/sys/sysbrdtk.htm
- http://cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wanbu/8_5/switch/sys/sysatmcn.htm
ATM White Papers: http://www.fore.com/products/wp/index.html
ATM Standards PDF's: http://www.fore.com/products/pdfindex.html#miscellaneous
ATM Organizations - ATM Forum: http://www.atmforum.com/
http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/1015atmwan.html - a very good and detailed site on building an ATM Wide Area Network

WAN

Modems

Modem initialization strings, etc.:

Layer 3: Network Protocols

TCP/IP

http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html - info on TCP/IP
http://www.charm.net/ppp.html - a site with a lot of TCP/IP information
http://www.ii.uib.no/~magnus/TCP.html - a very informative site on TCP/IP
http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/ip101.html - an article on IP addresses
http://www.networkcomputing.com/806/806ws2.html - a site on Designing fault tolerant TCP/IP WANs
http://www.networkcomputing.com/816/816r1.html - a site that compares several vendors Dynamic DNS products

TCP/IP Version 6

http://www.ipv6forum.com/ - Another good site on TCP/IP version 6.

Microsoft NetBEUI and NetBIOS

Windows / NetBIOS useful links page

Novell SAP Codes

http://developer.novell.com/engsup/sample/tids/vr_list/vr_list.exe - this is a file you can download to get all the SAP Codes
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/111/9.html - this site lists the Novell SAP Service Lists

AppleTalk

http://devworld.apple.com/techpubs/mac/NetworkingOT/NetworkingWOT-58.html#MARKER-13-66 - has some good information on Appletalk
http://thunderstorm.cicada.com/pub/mac/AppleTalkManual.html - a site that has good information on AppleTalk; particularly AppleTalk Update based Routing Protocol (AURP)
http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/tr1909.htm - a good site on AppleTalk troubleshooting
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/applet.htm - an detailed site on AppleTalk

Banyan VINES

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/vines.htm - a good site on Banyan Vines
http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/tr1913.htm - a site on troubleshooting for Banyan Vines

DECnet

http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/tr1911.htm - a good site on DECnet Troubleshooting
http://www.cisco.com/cpress/cc/td/cpress/fund/ith2nd/it2428.htm - a good site on DECnet
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/decnet.htm - a good site on DECnet
http://www.rware.demon.co.uk/router6.htm - an all right site on routing DECnet

OSI CLNS / DECnet Phase V

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios100/rpcg/36043.htm - a good site on configuring OSI CLNS

IP Routing Protocols

RIP

http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/docs/misc/ciscodoc/data/doc/software/9_21/cscg/79492.htm - a site on configuring IP Routing Protocols
http://www.networkcomputing.com/811/811f1.html - a good site that helps explains IP switching

OSPF

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ospf-charter.html - contains a lot of information on OSPF; very useful
http://www-dos.uniinc.msk.ru/tech1/1995/ospf/ospf.htm - an excellent site on OSPF
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=EB00000681 - an informative site on OSPF (download) free
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/104/1.html - an OSPF Design Guide

IP Technology

Quality of Service (QoS)

http://www.qosforum.com/ - an all right file with some in-depth technical files you can download
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/qos.htm - a good site on Quality of Service in networking
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/ios/tech/tch/qosio_wp.htm - an awesome site on QoS
http://www.cisco.com/networkers/nw02/post/presentations/docs/NSC-215.pdf - NW2002 presentation on Enterprise QoS
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/ip_tele/avvidqos/index.htm - AVVID QoS Guide

IP Multicast

http://www.stardust.com/ipmulticast/community/whitepapers/backgrounder.html - another good site on IP
http://www.networkcomputing.com/718/718w1.html - a good informative site on IP multicast
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/cisco/mkt/ios/mcastip/tech/ipmc_wp.htm - A good Overview of IP Multicast

Layer 3 Switching

http://www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/white_papers/500660.html - a good in-depth site on Layer 3 Switching
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/sol/mkt/ent/cmps/l3c85_wp.htm - a good site the explains layer 3 switching

MultiProtocol Label Switching

www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html - an very informative site on MPLS
www.nortelnetworks.com/mpls - contains some good information on MPLS
www.nanog.org/mtg-9905/ppt/mpls/index.htm - containsome more in depth info

Web Load Balancing

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4015/pdcindex.htm l - some basics on Web load balancing
http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/990315qs - a quick study in Web load balancing, links to other resources about same topic including some Computerworld articles

Voice

http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/788/7.html - a great site on Voice Design and Implementation (need username and password)
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/788/ - this page is full of technical tips on Voice technology
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wanbu/vns/vns_30/vns30/vns30_01.htm - a good site on voice network switching
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1026/1026ws1.html - a site that helps explain different VoIP protocols
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1001/1001ws12.html - a site that explains various aspects of VoIP
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1019/1019colwillis.html - a alright article on SIP
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1021/1021f1.html - a great site on integrating Integrating Voice and Data
http://www.cisco.com/tac/iptelsolguide/ - Cisco IP Telephony Solution Guide, very good material!

Web Caching

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/webcache/ce15/ver15/wc1int.htm - has some good information on Web Caching

Firewalls

http://cs-www.ncsl.nist.gov/nistpubs/800-10/node30.html#SECTION00500000000000000000 - has some great info on firewalls
http://www.nwc.com/921/921f2.html - a useful site that compares various firewalls
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/ - a site that answers common questions on firewalls
http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/firewalls/ - a site that contains lots of idepth information on firewalls

Networking Tutorials

http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/index.html - excellent site
http://www.webproforum.com/sdh/index.html an alright tutorial on SDH

Cisco Miscellaneous

Technical Question Mailing List Archive

Cisco spot.colorado.edu mail list archive: http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/cisco

Cisco Router Switching Methods

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/switch_c/index.htm

Network Management

Tools

LanHopper: cable switches that look like an interesting way to remotely switch Packet Analysers and RMON probes to segments as needed. No, I'm not recommending their products, just saying you might want to take a look! www.lanhopper.com
New (3/97) Cisco script to add Cisco traps to Netview 4.x. http://cio.cisco.com/public/mibs/contrib/traps.script
NTP. Network Time Protocol. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp
Multi Router Traffic Grapher. http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html
Big Brother. http://www.iti.qc.ca/iti/users/sean/bb-dnld
http://www.nacmind.com/ - a great site with free network management software and tools such as a LATA locator
http://www.caida.org/Tools/RRDtool/ - a sight on RRDtool which is a free software program that works better than MRTG
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8260/ - a nifty tool that works with SNMP
PingPlotter - a great way to trace routes excellent for finding bottlenecks - http://www.nessoft.com/pingplotter/
Virtual Network Computing - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/screenshots.html
Anti Virus - http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explorezip.pack.html -also contains information on viruses

SNMP MIB's and RFC's

List of SNMP RFC's from July 1996 Simple-Times magazine. Also a link to archive of back copies. Simple Times
MIB's list with hotlinks http://www.cforc.com/cwk/
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/535/3.html - a good site on SNMP
SNMP Research - an excellent site on SNMP
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/490/ - a bunch of technical tips on SNMP
mibCentral MIB repository: http://www.mibcentral.com - large collection of MIBs by vendor

Network Management Sites

SUNY @ Buffalo

SUNY @ Buffalo Network Management Page (The former "smurfland" site). A really good source for info relating to network management.
SUNY @ Buffalo Ops Server SunNet Manager, Local Apps, and Home Grown Statistics using Splus, CMUSNMP and some scripts.

Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC)

SLAC Quick Guide Quick Guide to SLAC's Networking Reports and Data - Overview
SLAC WAN Monitoring Info WAN monitoring at SLAC.

University of Twente

University of Twente (Netherlands) UTwente SNMP Toolkit, TNM, FAQ, etc.

Other Network Management Pages

Network Management Information (European - Micromuse)

Other Colleges and Universities

University of Braunschweig (Germany)
University of Delft (Netherlands)(DNPAP)
University of Limerick (Ireland)
University of Munich (Germany) Auf deutsch.

Organizations

IEEE - media and other standards
IETF - RFC's and Internet/IP standards
InterNIC
SANS - security training, conferences, certifications
Usenix - UNIX and Windows system administration and management

Miscellaneous

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/ccrg/publications.html - bibliography with links to research documents
http://iponeverything.net/cisco.shtml - a site with tons of useful links
http://www.netcerts.com/netres.asp - another site with a ton of very useful information
http://www.protocols.com/pbook/ - an awesome reference site with information on many networking protocols
http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm l - IANA houses the many unique parameters and protocol values; very useful

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