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Appendix A: Directory of

Useful Web Sites

hroughout this book, I mention many Web sites that you can visit to

glean more information about various networking topics. This appendix

gathers those sites into one convenient location and adds a bunch more

that are also worth visiting from time to time. Happy surfing!

Certification

Here are the sites to check out for official certification information:

✦ www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp: Microsoft’s certification

headquarters

✦ www.comptia.org: Independent certification including A+, Network+,

and Security+

✦ www.novell.com/training/certinfo: The home page for Novell

certification

✦ www.ibm.com/certify: IBM’s certification home page

✦ www.cisco.com/certification: Cisco’s certification home page

✦ www.redhat.com/training/certification: Red Hat’s Linux certi-

fication home page

Hardware

The following Web sites are general resources for researching computer

hardware:

✦ http://reviews.cnet.com: CNET’s reviews section offers reviews

on all types of computer hardware, with a special section devoted to

networking.

✦ www.hardwarecentral.com: HardwareCentral is another good source

for general computer hardware information, reviews, and advice.

✦ www.tomshardware.com: Tom’s Hardware Guide is the place to go if

you want detailed information about the latest in computer

components.

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Home and Small Business Networking

The following manufacturers offer high-end networking products, including

servers, routers, switches, and so on:

✦ www.ibm.com/systems/networking: IBM’s networking portal is a

must-see site.

✦ www.hp.com/servers: This site is the home page for Hewlett-

Packard’s server products.

✦ www.dell.com/servers: This is the home page for Dell server

products.

✦ www.oracle.com/servers: This page is the home page for Sun

servers.

Home and Small Business Networking

The following Web sites have general information about home and small

business networking:

✦ www.homenethelp.com: This excellent Web site is devoted to helping

people get their home networks up and running, loaded with step-by-

step procedures and flowcharts.

✦ www.practicallynetworked.com: This site is a great source of infor-

mation for home networking, with general networking information, tech-

nology backgrounders, product reviews, troubleshooting advice, and

more.

✦ www.hometoys.com: This site provides information on all sorts of gad-

gets for the home, including networks.

✦ www.ehpub.com: This is the home page of EH Publishing, which pub-

lishes several magazines for home technology.

✦ www.homepna.org: This is the home page of the HomePNA Alliance.

✦ www.homeplug.org: This is the home page of the HomePlug PowerLine

Alliance, which promotes PowerLine networking.

✦ www.linksys.com: This is the home page for Linksys, one of the most

popular manufacturers of networking devices for homes and small

offices, including 10/100BaseT, wireless, and even phone and Powerline

devices.

✦ www.netgear.com: This is the home page for NETGEAR, which makes

home and small office networking devices, including 10/100BaseT adapt-

ers and switches, wireless devices, and phone-line systems.

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Magazines

Linux

The following Web sites have general information about Linux:

✦ www.linux.org: One of the best overall Web sites for everything Linux.

It’s a central source of Linux information and news and includes many

links to Linux distributions and downloadable applications.

✦ www.justlinux.com: This site includes a popular discussion forum

where you can ask questions and, with luck, get answers.

Here are the home pages for some of the most popular distributions:

✦ www.redhat.com: The Web site of the most popular Linux distribution

✦ www.redhat.com/Fedora: The home page for the Fedora project

✦ www.suse.com: The SUSE distribution

✦ www.caldera.com: The Caldera distribution from SCO

✦ www.mandrivalinux.com: The Mandriva Linux distribution (formerly

called Mandrake Linux)

✦ www.slackware.com: Slackware, one of the oldest Linux distributions

Here are the home pages for some popular Linux networking software:

✦ www.isc.org/software/BIND: The official page for BIND, the most

popular DNS nameserver on the Internet

✦ www.sendmail.org: Official site for Sendmail, the SMTP mail exchange

server

✦ www.apache.org: Official site for the Apache HTTP server

✦ www.samba.org: Official site for the Samba file and print server

Magazines

Here are some links to various magazines on networking topics:

✦ www.informationweek.com: InformationWeek

✦ www.infoworld.com: InfoWorld

✦ www.networkcomputing.com: Network Computing

✦ www.windowsitpro.com: Windows IT Pro Magazine

✦ www.2600.com: 2600 Magazine

✦ www.linuxjournal.com: Linux Journal

✦ www.linuxmagazine.com: Linux Magazine

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Microsoft

Microsoft’s Web site is vast. Here are some links to a few useful areas within

this huge Web site:

✦ www.microsoft.com/windows: The home page for the Windows

family of products

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003: The home page for

Windows Server 2003

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008: The home page for

Windows Server 2008

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsxp: The home page for Windows XP

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsvista: The home page for Windows

Vista

✦ www.microsoft.com/windows7: The home page for Windows 7

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem: The home page for

Microsoft server products

✦ www.microsoft.com/exchange: The home page for Exchange

✦ www.microsoft.com/sqlserver: The home page for SQL Server

✦ www.microsoft.com/iis: The home page for Internet Information

Services (IIS)

✦ http://sharepoint.microsoft.com: The home page for SharePoint

✦ http://technet.microsoft.com: TechNet, a great source for techni-

cal information on Microsoft technologies

✦ http://support.microsoft.com: Microsoft’s general support site

Network Standards Organizations

The following Web sites are useful when you’re researching network

standards:

✦ www.ansi.org: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the

official standards organization in the United States.

✦ www.ieee.org: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

(IEEE), an international organization that publishes several key network-

ing standards, including the official Ethernet standards (known as IEEE

802.3).

✦ www.iso.org: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO),

a federation of more than 100 standards organizations from throughout

the world.

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✦ www.isoc.org: The Internet Society, an international organization for

global coordination and cooperation on the Internet.

✦ www.ietf.org: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), responsible

for the protocols that drive the Internet.

✦ www.iana.org: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which has

responsibility for the IP address space.

✦ www.w3c.org: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an interna-

tional organization that handles the development of standards for the

World Wide Web.

✦ www.rfc-editor.org: This is the official repository of RFCs. It

includes a search facility that lets you look up RFCs by name or key-

word.

Reference

A number of general-purpose and computer-specific reference sites provide

encyclopedia-style articles or simple definitions of computer and networking

terms. If you aren’t sure what some new technology is, start at one of these

sites:

✦ www.webopedia.com: Webopedia is a great online dictionary of com-

puter and Internet terms. Not sure what direct sequence spread spectrum

means? Look it up at Webopedia!

✦ www.wikipedia.org: Wikipedia is a huge user-written online

encyclopedia.

✦ www.whatis.com: Whatis.com is another great dictionary of computer

and networking terms.

✦ www.howstuffworks.com: This site has general information about

many different types of technology: computers, automobiles, electron-

ics, science, and more. The computer section provides good low-level

introductions to various computer topics, including computer hardware,

the Internet, and security.

Search engines are often the first place you turn to when you’re trying to

solve a network problem and you need information fast:

✦ www.google.com: Google is the most popular search site on the

Internet today, with a huge database of Web sites and newsgroup arti-

cles that’s constantly updated. Google has a powerful keyword search

feature that lets you refine your search as you go.

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TCP/IP and the Internet

✦ www.bing.com: Microsoft’s own search engine, designed to compete

with Google.

✦ www.yahoo.com: Yahoo!, one of the original Web site catalogs, is still

the best place to go if you want to browse categories rather than search

for keywords.

✦ www.msnsearch.com: The search page of Microsoft’s MSN.com portal.

✦ www.webfetch.com: Webfetch is a meta-search tool that searches mul-

tiple search engines at the same time.

✦ www.dogpile.com: Another search engine aggregator that searches

multiple search engines at the same time.

TCP/IP and the Internet

The following sites have interesting information about the Internet:

✦ www.internic.net: The InterNIC Web site is a central point of infor-

mation for domain registration. Check here for a list of accredited

domain registrars.

✦ www.networksolutions.com: The home of Network Solutions, the

most popular site for registering domain names.

✦ www.register.com: Register.com is another domain registration site.

✦ www.isc.org: Members of the Internet Systems Consortium are the

folks who do the twice-a-year domain survey to try to estimate how big

the Internet really is.

For DNS information, try www.dnsstuff.com, which lets you perform a

variety of DNS lookups to make sure that your DNS zones are set up

correctly.

Check these sites to find information about Web browsers:

✦ www.microsoft.com/ie: The official home page for Internet Explorer.

✦ www.mozilla.org: The home of Firefox, a popular alternative Web

browser. Many users consider Firefox to be the best Web browser

around.

✦ www.opera.com: The home of Opera, another alternative to Internet

Explorer.

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Wireless Networking

Here are some Web sites with general information about wireless

networking:

✦ www.wi-fiplanet.com: Wi-Fi Planet is a large site devoted to news,

information, and product reviews for wireless networking

✦ http://wifinetnews.com: Wi-Fi Networking News is a source for

daily news on wireless networking

Here are the Web sites for the most popular brands of wireless networking

products:

✦ www.linksys.com: Linksys is a manufacturer of wireless network cards

and access points.

✦ www.netgear.com: NETGEAR is another manufacturer of wireless

components.

✦ www.dlink.com: D-Link is yet another manufacturer of inexpensive

wireless products.

✦ www.smc.com: The home page for SMC, another manufacturer of

wireless network products.

✦ www.cisco.com: Cisco is the place to go for high-end wireless

networking.

✦ www.3com.com: 3Com is another good place to go for wireless

networking components.

The following Web sites have interesting information about wireless network

security:

✦ www.netstumbler.com: The makers of NetStumbler, software that

detects wireless network access and security problems.

✦ www.airwave.com: The makers of AirWave, a software-based tool that

snoops for unauthorized access points.

✦ www.wardriving.com: An extensive site devoted to the practice of

wardriving.

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Smartphones

The following Web sites contain useful information about various smart-

phone platforms:

✦ www.blackberry.com: The main Web site for Research In Motion’s

BlackBerry platform.

✦ www.blackberryforums.com: A popular discussion forum Web site

for the BlackBerry platform.

✦ www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile: The home page for the

Windows Mobile platform.

✦ www.android.com: The home page for Google’s Android platform.

✦ www.apple.com/iphone: The home page for Apple’s iPhone.

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Appendix B: Glossary

10Base2: A type of coax cable that was once the most often used cable for

Ethernet networks. Also known as thinnet or cheapernet. The maximum

length of a single segment is 185 meters (600 feet).

10Base5: The original Ethernet coax cable, now pretty much obsolete. Also

known as yellow cable or thick cable. The maximum length of a single seg-

ment is 500 meters (1,640 feet).

10BaseT: Twisted-pair cable, commonly used for Ethernet networks. Also

known as UTP, twisted pair, or twisted sister (just kidding!). The maximum

length of a single segment is 100 meters (330 feet). Of the three Ethernet

cable types, this one is the easiest to work with.

100BaseFX: The Ethernet standard for high-speed fiber-optic connections.

100BaseT4: An alternative standard for 100 Mbps Ethernet using four-pair

Category-3 cable.

100BaseTX: The leading standard for 100 Mbps Ethernet, which uses two-

pair, Category-5 twisted-pair cable.

100VG AnyLAN: A standard for 100 Mbps Ethernet that isn’t as popular as

100BaseT. Like 100BaseT, 100VG AnyLAN uses twisted-pair cable.

1000BaseT: A new standard for 1,000 Mbps Ethernet using four-pair,

Category-5, unshielded twisted-pair cable. 1000BaseT is also known as

Gigabit Ethernet.

1000000000000BaseT: Well, not really. But if current trends continue, we’ll

get there soon.

802.2: The forgotten IEEE standard. The more glamorous 802.3 standard

relies upon 802.2 for moral support.

802.3: The IEEE standard known in the vernacular as Ethernet.

802.11: The IEEE standard for wireless networking. Three popular variants

are 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g.

8088 processor: The microprocessor chip around which IBM designed its

original PC, marking the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.

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80286 processor

80286 processor: Computo-habilis, an ancient ancestor of today’s modern

computers.

80386 processor: The first 32-bit microprocessor chip used in personal com-

puters, long since replaced by newer, better designs.

80486 processor: The last of Intel’s CPU chips to have a number instead of a

name. Replaced years ago by the Pentium processor.

AAUI: Apple Attachment Unit Interface, a type of connector used in some

Apple Ethernet networks.

access rights: A list of rights that tells you what you can and can’t do with

network files or directories.

account: You can’t get into the network without one of these. The network

knows who you are and what rights you have on the network by virtue of

your account.

acronym: An abbreviation made up of the first letters of a series of words.

Active Directory: The directory service in Windows networks.

Active Server Pages: An Internet feature from Microsoft that enables you

to create Web pages with scripts that run on the server rather than on the

client. Also known as ASP. The newest version is called ASP.NET.

ActiveSync: A windows component used to synchronize data between

computers.

adapter card: An electronic card that you can plug in to one of your com-

puter’s adapter slots to give it some new and fabulous capability, such as

displaying 16 million colors, talking to other computers over the phone, or

accessing a network.

address book: In an e-mail system, a list of users with whom you regularly

correspond.

administrator: The big network cheese who is responsible for setting things

up and keeping them running. Pray that it’s not you. Also known as the net-

work manager.

AFP: Apple Filing Protocol, a protocol for filing used by Apple. (That helps a

lot, doesn’t it?)

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