Networking Basics

• International Standards Organizations
• National Standards Organizations
• Professional Associations
• Professional Communities
• ISO/OSI Reference Model
• TCP/IP Reference Model
• Layered Packet Format
• Flow Control
• Error Control
• Connection-Oriented vs Connectionless
• Multiple Access Protocols
• Ethernet Standards
• HDLC Family
• HDLC Framing: Bit Stuffing
• HDLC Frames
• PPP: Introduction
• PPP in HDLC-Like Framing
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• IP Addressing: An Example
• Subnetwork
• Forwarding an IP Datagram
• IPv6: How Many Addresses?
• IPv6 Addresses
• Colon-Hex Notation
• IPv6 vs IPv4
• TCP: Key Features
• TCP Header
• Domain Name System: Hierarchy
• Name Resolution

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