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Links last checked Oct 11, 2026.
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| Standards and registries | ||||||||
 arin.net - ARIN (IP address and ASN registry for North America) |
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 iana.org - IANA protocol numbers (moved from isi.edu) |
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 ieee802.org - IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (Ethernet, Wi-Fi) |
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 ietf.org - Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet standards) |
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 packetizer.com - Packetizer (H.323, SIP and ITU-T standards) |
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 rfc-editor.org - RFC Editor (every RFC) |
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| rfc-editor.org/rfc9260 - RFC 9260: SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol; replaces RFC 2960) |
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 w3.org - W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) |
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| Networking equipment makers | ||||||||
 arista.com - Arista Networks |
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 cisco.com - Cisco |
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 juniper.net - Juniper Networks (now part of HPE) |
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| Network tools and measurement | ||||||||
 atlas.ripe.net - RIPE Atlas (global ping and traceroute measurements) |
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 bgp.he.net - Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit (looking glass, ping and traceroute) |
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 bgp.potaroo.net - BGP routing table size reports (Geoff Huston) |
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 iperf.fr - iPerf (TCP, UDP and SCTP bandwidth testing) |
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 nmap.org - Nmap (free network scanner, from insecure.org) |
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 peeringdb.com - PeeringDB (networks and internet exchange points) |
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 wireshark.org - Wireshark (free protocol analyzer; formerly Ethereal) |
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| Learning, advice and books | ||||||||
 amazon.com - Search Amazon.com for data networking books |
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 experts-exchange.com - Experts Exchange (IT questions and answers) |
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| iponeverything.net - IP On Everything (networking links and notes) |
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 networklessons.com - NetworkLessons (Cisco and networking tutorials) |
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 serverfault.com - Server Fault (network and sysadmin Q&A) |
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| Network security | ||||||||
 cisa.gov - CISA (US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) |
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 openssh.com - OpenSSH (free SSH) |
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 sans.org - SANS Institute (security training and research) |
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 ssh.com - SSH Communications Security (ssh.fi now goes here) |
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| Compression and file formats (checksums, zlib, PNG) | ||||||||
| info-zip.org - Info-ZIP (free Zip and UnZip) |
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| libpng.org - Introduction to PNG |
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 zlib.net - zlib technical details (CRC and Adler-32 checksums; moved from info-zip.org) |
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