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CCNA 1 related articles

My personal list of recommended articles for my friends and students.

Main pages

On WP

• Portal:Computer_networking
• Cisco Career Certifications

Free CCNA material

• CCNA Discovery test chapters
• CCNA Exploration test chapters

Other material from Cisco

• Internetworking Technology Handbook
• Internetworking Technology Handbook as a Wiki

General good resources

• Free online book (in Swedish: Datorkommunikation)
• Vyatta training(Open source, off the shelf Cisco alternative)
• IP/MPLS forum (for ATM, Frame Relay and MPLS)
• Learn Networking (CCNA for dummies)
• Networkworld Encyclopedia
• Federal Standard Encyclopedia
• Softtechinfo - collection of IT related links

Articles sorted according to CCNA 3.1

• Module 1 - Introduction to networking (98 % complete)
• Module 2 - Networking Fundamentals (98 % complete)
• Module 3 - Networking Media (67 % complete)
• Module 4 - Cable testing (50 % complete)
• Module 5 - Cabling LANs and WANs (15 % complete)
• Module 6 - Ethernet Fundamentals (15 % complete)
• Module 7 - Ethernet Technologies (15 % complete)
• Module 8 - Ethernet Switching (95 % complete)
• Module 9 - TCP/IP Protocol Suite and IP addressing (98 % complete)
• Module 10 - Routing Fundamentals and Subnets (98 % complete)
• Module 11 - TCP/IP Transport and Application Layers (98 % complete)

• Structured cabling

Shortcuts and additions to CCNA that I've mentioned to my students

General troubleshooting commands

Basic

• Ping. See also Introduction to ping
• Traceroute

Detailed

• Wireshark
• Ethereal
• tcpdump
• Netstat
• Rpcinfo

DNS

• Domain Information Groper (dig). See also Introduction to dig
• nslookup. See also Introduction to nslookup and nslookup is a badly flawed tool
• WHOIS. See also Introduction to WHOIS

Legacy commands

• arp -a as a command to list current arp table
• ifconfig (ipconfig in Windows)
• route

iproute2

• Very much like Cisco IOS
• Most commands look like ip link up...

Fedora Linux network utilities and settings

• system-config-network
• Iptables, filtering Firewall, system-config-firewall, service iptables start/stop/status/restart
• /etc/sysconfig/network
• /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/...
• service network start/stop/restart/status
• /etc/resolv.conf

Mobile phone technologies

• 1G
  • NMT
• 2G
  • GSM
  • General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
  • Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (Enhanced GPRS)
• 3G
  • Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • High-Speed Packet Access
    • High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
    • High-Speed Uplink Packet Access
• 4G
  • Long Term Evolution

• WiMax
• GPS
• Bluetooth

See also: Comparison of wireless data standards och List of mobile phone standards

Other technologies

• X-standards
  • X.25
  • X.21
  • X-line was Televerket only...
• V-standards
• Infiniband
• List of device bandwidths
• All IEEE 802 working groups