| William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Fifth Edition (or newer), Prentice Hall. | Datacommunications Reference |
| Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall. | TCP/IP References |
| Radia Perlman, Interconnections, Addison-Wesley | |
| http://www.cisco.com/... | Documentation portal for Cisco IOS software (version 12.2) |
| http://www.cisco.com/... | Cisco IOS command reference for version 11.1 |
| http://www.lantronix.com/learning/tutorials/index.html | A brief Ethernet overview produced by an equipment vendor |
| http://www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/ethernet.html - | An extensive set of Ethernet resources |
| PDF File | Adam Healey, 1000BaseT Technology Overview, November 1998 |
| RFCINTRO.pdf | Very old (1987), and yet still one of the best introductions to the Internet. Just keep the age in mind -- you won't find subnet masks here, at least not the way we talk about them. |
| "IP Addressing and Subnetting for New Users" | Cisco Technical Document |
| http://www.wildpackets.com/compendium/main/comp_map.html | A very nice compilation of resources and pointers from Wildpackets, Inc. (they sell sniffer software); really good to look up Ethernet, FDDI, and other low-level info, good for ARP, ICMP, and IP |
| http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Subnetworking.html | A very brief intro to IP addresses and subnetting. When you read section 3.3, remember that the idea of an IP address "class" is rarely used today. Section 6 has a lot of examples regarding the computation of address masks. |
| http://www.subnetmask.info/ | An address calculator |
| Marshall T. Rose, The Simple Book - An Introduction to Network Management, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall | |
| William Stallings, SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP, Addison-Wesley | |
| Douglas Mauro, Kevin Schmidt, Essential SNMP, O'Reilly 2001 | See note 1 |
| RFC 792 | ICMP |
| RFC 2151 | Diagnostic Tools for the Internet |
| RFC 3056 | Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds |
| http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/40.7 | Searchable man pages for Solaris ifconfig is in section 1M |
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi | Searchable man pages for FreeBSD ifconfig is in section 8 |
| Windows XP in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition By David A.ÊKarp, TroyÊMott, TimÊO'Reilly O'Reilly Publishing |
Applies to Win 2003 UI as well see note 1 below |
| Learning Windows Server 2003 By JonathanÊHassell O'Reilly Publishing |
See note 1 below |
| http://www.wireshark.org/ | Packet Analyzer (sniffer) for Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X |