The networking basics page contains all my articles that deal with the foundational topics of network engineering, like Ethernet, spanning tree, etc.
- A Thousand-Dollar Networking Definitions
- Cisco Digital Media Player Initial Configuration
- The Keyboardbanger DNS Tutorial
- Bittorrent Explained
- Understanding The Basics of HTTP Protocol
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Dynamics of AIMD For A Single Flow
- Dynamics Of AIMD For Multiple Flows
- Network-based Congestion Control vs Host-based Congestion Control
- Queueing Properties
- Go Back N Protocol and Selective Repeat
- Connection-Oriented vs Connectionless
- the bidirectional byte stream model
- Challenges of Converged Networks
- Network Byte Order
- You’re Losing Money By Not Using Ethernet
- The Keyboard Banger Guide To Spanning Tree Protocol
- Circuit Switching Concepts
- The Principle of Packet Switching
- Congestion Control Basics And the Max-min Fairness Allocation
- Forwarding And Switching
- Throughput, Goodput And Latency
- Error Detection And Correction
- Network Design: The End-To-End Principle Explained
- ARP Protocol Explained
- Introduction To ICMP
- The TCP IP Model
- The Keyboard Banger Guide To The TCP Protocol
- DHCP – Dynamic Host Control Protocol
- IP Addresses And Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
- Memory, Byte Order, Little Endian and Big Endian
- Decimal and Hexadecimal conversions
- What is in The Traceroute Command That Everyone Must Know
- IPv4 service model and header format
- Linux Commands Network Engineers Should Know