14567853238 | OSI Layer 1 | Physical | 0 | |
14567853239 | OSI Layer 2 | Data Link | 1 | |
14567854912 | OSI Layer 3 | Network | 2 | |
14567855519 | OSI Layer 4 | OSI Transport | 3 | |
14567856373 | OSI Layer 5 | Session | 4 | |
14567856374 | OSI Layer 6 | Presentation | 5 | |
14567857385 | OSI Layer 7 | OSI Application | 6 | |
14567861184 | TCP/IP Layer 1 | Network Interface | 7 | |
14567862079 | TCP/IP Layer 2 | Internet | 8 | |
14567862080 | TCP/IP Layer 3 | TCP/IP Transport | 9 | |
14567863562 | TCP/IP Layer 4 | TCP/IP Application | 10 | |
14571026141 | Bus Topology | A network model where all computers are connected to a single cable | 11 | |
14571029997 | Star Topology | A network model with a central node for all computers to communicate through | 12 | |
14571033818 | Ring Topology | A network model where all computers are connected one after another in a complete ring | 13 | |
14571039516 | Mesh Topology | A network model where all computers are interconnected to all other computers | 14 | |
14571042087 | Partial Mesh Topology | A network model where most computers are interconnected to all other computers, but not all computers are connected to every other computer. | 15 | |
14571048918 | Star Bus Topology | A hybrid topology which is the most common network practice used in modern day networking. | 16 | |
14571064121 | RG-58 | A old type of coaxial cable rated at 50 OHM | 17 | |
14571067603 | RG-59 | A type of coaxial cable rated at 75 OHM | 18 | |
14571069270 | RG-6 | The thickest type of coaxial cable which is rated at 75 OHM | 19 | |
14571071176 | Broadcast | A frame or packet addressed to all machines | 20 | |
14571073662 | Unicast | A frame or packet addressed to a specific computer. | 21 | |
14571080056 | BNC Connector | A type of coaxial cable connector which is not threaded and uses a twist lock mechanism. | 22 | |
14571081885 | F-Type Connector | A type of coaxial cable connector which is threaded. | 23 | |
14571102001 | RJ-45 Connector | An eight-position connector that uses all four pairs of wires. It is usually used for network connectivity | 24 | |
14571110270 | EIA/TIA 568-A | 1. Brown 2. Brown /W 3. Orange 4. Blue /W 5. Blue 6. Orange /W 7. Green 8. Green /W | 25 | |
14571111294 | EIA/TIA 568-B | 1. Brown 2. Brown /W 3. Green 4. Blue /W 5. Blue 6. Green /W 7. Orange 8. Orange /W | 26 | |
14571131473 | Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) | A twisted pair cable with a metal shield around the wires for extra protection. | 27 | |
14571136100 | Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) | Networking cable with at least four twisted copper pairs. Signal can be more easily effected by environmental considerations. | 28 | |
14571142540 | CAT 1 | Standard telephone line not used for networking | 29 | |
14571152193 | CAT 3 | Networking cable which is almost obsolete as it only runs 10MB/s | 30 | |
14571155427 | CAT 5 | Networking cable designed to run at 100 MB/s for 100 meters | 31 | |
14571159776 | CAT 5e | Networking cable which improved upon CAT 5. Runs at 100-1000MB/s for 100 meters | 32 | |
14571164447 | CAT 6 | Network cable which runs at 1 GB/s for 100 meters, or 10 Gb/s for 55 meters | 33 | |
14571173592 | CAT 6a | Network cable which runs at 10GB/s for 100 meters | 34 | |
14571177207 | CAT 7 | Network cable which runs at 10GB/s for 100 meters, and is also shielded. | 35 | |
14571192333 | Multimode Fiber | A type of fiber optic cable which carries LED signals. Typically Orange. | 36 | |
14571193817 | Singlemode Fiber | A type of fiber optic designed to go further distances using lasers. Typically yellow. | 37 | |
14571198827 | Duplex | Cables with two connectors. | 38 | |
14571201335 | ST Connector | One of the earliest type of fiber connectors. Round connector which twists into place. | 39 | |
14571202517 | SC Connector | Square connectors used on fiber optic cables. | 40 | |
14571205314 | FC Connector | Similar to ST but it screws into place instead of just twists. | 41 | |
14571210318 | LC Connector | Smaller connector with 2 connectors put into one. | 42 | |
14571213129 | MT-RJ Connector | High density fiber optic cable which appears to almost be one connector even though it is duplex. | 43 | |
14571220617 | PC Polishing | Contact has slightly rounded edges. | 44 | |
14571225903 | UPC Polishing | Contact is significantly rounded | 45 | |
14571226883 | APC Polishing | 7 degree angle on contact | 46 | |
14571246983 | Plenum-Rated | Fire retardant cabling which is typically required for wiring in buildings. | 47 | |
14571246984 | PVC (Non-Plenum) | No fire rating at all. Usually 2-3x cheaper than Plenum | 48 | |
14571250453 | Riser-Rated | Second best fire rating which is designed for cabling through multiple floors. | 49 | |
14571273680 | Serial Ports | Low speed two way ports, almost obsolete because of slow speeds. | 50 | |
14571279720 | RS-232 | Language used by serial ports to communicate. | 51 | |
14571289861 | DB-9 Connector | A type of connector with nine pins that's commonly used in serial communication that conforms to the RS-232 standard. | 52 | |
14571293813 | DB-25 Connector | A type of connector with 25 pins that's commonly used in serial communication that conforms to the RS-232 standard. | 53 | |
14571296119 | Parellel port (IEEE 1284) | A connector for a device that sends or receives several bits of data simultaneously by using more than one wire. Used for printers predominantly. | 54 | |
14571316767 | IEEE 802.3 | Ethernet | 55 | |
14571317918 | IEEE 802.11 | Wireless Ethernet standard more commonly known as Wi-Fi. | 56 | |
14571319394 | Rollover/Yost Cable | Uses a serial port to communicate with modern routers through the console. | 57 | |
14571403207 | 10BaseT | Ethernet LAN designed to run on twisted pair cabling which runs at 10 Mbps. The maximum length for the cabling is 100 meters. It uses baseband signaling. Maximum of 1024 devices attached. CAT 3 or better UTP. | 58 | |
14571425346 | Preamble | Warns NIC that a frame is upcoming. First part of frame. | 59 | |
14571428587 | Destination MAC Address | Second part of a frame | 60 | |
14571430829 | Source MAC Address | Third part of a frame | 61 | |
14571431291 | DATA Type | Ether Type, Forth part of frame. lets computer know what kind of DATA is being sent. | 62 | |
14571435989 | DATA | Fifth part of the frame. | 63 | |
14571437444 | Minimum Data in Frame | 64 bytes | 64 | |
14571443238 | PAD | pushes bytes up to 64 on frames which are smaller than the minimum. | 65 | |
14571444911 | MTU in Frame | 1522 bytes | 66 | |
14571450080 | Jumbo Frame | A single frame with up to 9000 bytes | 67 | |
14571451775 | MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit | 68 | |
14571455593 | FCS | Frame Check Sequence. Last part of frame | 69 | |
14571531946 | 10Base5 | An outdated Ethernet standard that operates at 10 Mbps and uses thick coaxial cable up to 500 meters long. Also called ThickNet. | 70 | |
14571534528 | Segmented Ethernet | A network which is all hooked up to one big cable. | 71 | |
14571539020 | CSMA/CD | Short for carrier sense multiple access with collision detection. It is the method for multiple hosts to communicate on a Ethernet. | 72 | |
14571552425 | 10Base2 | An Ethernet standard that operates at 10 Mbps and uses small coaxial cable up to 185 meters long. Also called ThinNet. Can handle up to 30 devices. Always utilizes a T connector. | 73 | |
14571632470 | Crossover Cable | A twisted pair patch cable in which the termination locations of the transmit and receive wires on one end of the cable are reversed. | 74 | |
14571640612 | Straight Through Cable | A twisted pair patch cable in which the wire terminations in both connectors follow the same scheme. | 75 | |
14571649564 | 8P8C | RJ-45 | 76 | |
14571660443 | HUB | multiport repeater | 77 | |
14571684467 | Switch | Sends frames to specific addresses. | 78 | |
14571700263 | Broadcast Domain | Switches with computers who can hear each others broadcasts | 79 | |
14571701616 | Collision Domain | Hubs network which includes all computers aware of collisions on their network. | 80 | |
14571747415 | 100BaseT | Ethernet cabling system designed to run at 100 Mbps on twisted pair cabling. It uses baseband signaling. | 81 | |
14571761930 | Half Duplex | Communication between two devices whereby transmission takes place in only one direction at a time. | 82 | |
14571762842 | Full Duplex | Communication that happens in two directions at the same time. | 83 | |
14571764741 | 100BaseT4 | An Ethernet LAN designed to run on UTP cabling. Runs at 100 Mbps and uses four-pair CAT 3 or better cabling. 100 meters, and 1024 nodes per hub. | 84 | |
14571770518 | 100BaseTX | 100 Mb/s 1024 nodes 100 meters Cat 5e Two pairs | 85 | |
14571776268 | 100BaseFX | 100 Mb/s 1024 nodes per hub multimode fiber 2 km | 86 | |
14571814781 | 1000BaseCX | Copper Coaxial Twinax 25 meters 1 Gb/s | 87 | |
14571816397 | 1000BaseSX | Fiber Optic Multimode 500 meters 1 Gb/s | 88 | |
14571822555 | 1000BaseLX | Fiber Optic Single Mode 5km 1 Gb/s | 89 | |
14571824995 | 1000BaseT | CAT 6 100 meters 1 Gb/s | 90 | |
14571829970 | 10GBaseT | CAT 6 - 55m CAT 6a - 100m 10Gb/s | 91 | |
14571839702 | 10GBaseSR/SW | Multimode 26 - 400 meters | 92 | |
14571840728 | 10GBaseLR/LW | Single Mode - 1310nm 10k | 93 | |
14571843174 | 10GBaseER/EW | Single Mode - 1550nm 40km | 94 | |
14571850980 | Sonet | Used by 10GBaseSW, 10GBaseEW, and 10GBaseLW | 95 | |
14571863489 | GBIC | Gigabit Interface Converter | 96 | |
14571869718 | SFP/SFP+ | Small Form-factor Pluggable | 97 | |
14571875416 | QSFP | Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable 40 GB/s ethernet | 98 | |
14571881297 | bidi | Bidirectional sending and receiving fiber optic connections on the same cable. | 99 | |
14572086482 | Bridging Loop | A physical wiring of a circuitous path between two or more switches, causing frames to loop continuously. | 100 | |
14572087867 | Spanning Tree Protocol - STP | Prevents a bridging loop by turning off a port | 101 | |
14572113835 | Layer 2 Attack | Attack that requires a physical connection to the network | 102 | |
14572114871 | Flood | Type of layer 2 attack used to do a DDoS or MitM attacks | 103 | |
14572114880 | Flood Guard | Prevents floods by turning off the effected port | 104 | |
14572161823 | Speed Mismatch | -No link light -Speed ports will show up as different speeds | 105 | |
14572253346 | MDF | Main Distribution Frame | 106 | |
14572255230 | IDF | Intermediate Distribution Frame | 107 | |
14592229315 | 66- Punchdown Block | first type of patch panel ever invented, predominantly for phone lines. | 108 | |
14592236009 | 110-Punchdown Block | The most common connection used on the back of an RJ-45 jack and patch panels. | 109 | |
14592240820 | Fiber Distribution Patch Panel | The fiber equivelant of a 110-Punchdown | 110 | |
14592252443 | Wiremap | tests if cables are in the right order | 111 | |
14592261148 | Continuity | Tests cables are not even connecting through | 112 | |
14592270803 | TDR | Time Domain Reflectometer | 113 | |
14592273691 | Maximum Horizontal Runs | 90 meters | 114 | |
14592277977 | OTDR | Optical Time Domain Reflectometer | 115 | |
14592281919 | Crosstalk | occurs when the signals of one wire affect the signals on an adjacent wire | 116 | |
14592300052 | 127.0.0.1 | loopback address | 117 | |
14592311103 | loopback cable | used to troubleshoot the NIC using the loopback address | 118 | |
14592318429 | Voltmeter | A device used to measure voltage, or electrical potential energy difference | 119 | |
14592318430 | Voltage Monitor | Diagnoses voltage by monitoring it for an extended period of time | 120 | |
14592340139 | Modal Distortion | A light distortion problem unique to multimode fiber-optic cable. | 121 | |
14592349354 | Tone generator and tone probe | Projects a sound that enables you to locate cables when they are not labeled. | 122 | |
14592362246 | Attenuation | Loss of power in a signal as it travels from the sending device to the receiving device | 123 | |
14592366172 | Jitter | The variability of latency over time across a network. VoIP/Video Streaming | 124 | |
14592377668 | No Connections | Bad ports | 125 | |
14592382015 | TX/RX Reverse | Crossover instead of straight through or vice versa. | 126 | |
14592387357 | Bent Pins | Replace the switch | 127 | |
14592390201 | Open/Short | Replace the cable | 128 | |
14592412650 | Dotted Decimal Notation | A method of writing an IPv4 address or subnet mask, where groups of 8 bits (called octets) are separated by periods. | 129 | |
14592515886 | ARP | Address Resolution Protocol | 130 | |
14592516589 | Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) | Part of the TCP/IP protocol for determining the MAC address based on the IP address. | 131 | |
14592526424 | arp -a | Displays ARP Cache in the command prompt | 132 | |
14592531887 | iana | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | 133 | |
14592533926 | RIR | Regional Internet Registry | 134 | |
14592541217 | Class A | 0-126 /8 | 135 | |
14592544215 | Class B | 128-191 /16 | 136 | |
14592545840 | Class C | 192-223 /24 | 137 | |
14592588393 | Network ID | The portion of an IP address common to all nodes on the same network or subnet. | 138 | |
14592591011 | Host ID | The portion of an IP address that defines a specific machine in a subnet. | 139 | |
14592644340 | CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing | 140 | |
14592744672 | /24 | 254 | 141 | |
14592744673 | /25 | 126 | 142 | |
14592745897 | /27 | 30 | 143 | |
14592745898 | /28 | 14 | 144 | |
14592745899 | /29 | 6 | 145 | |
14592746669 | /30 | 2 | 146 | |
14592746670 | /31 | 0 | 147 | |
14669894495 | 127.x.x.x | IPv4 Loopback address | 148 | |
14669895589 | ::1 | IPv6 Loopback Address | 149 | |
14669898499 | 192.168.x.x | Class C Private IP address | 150 | |
14669901151 | 169.254.x.x | APIPA address | 151 | |
14669902996 | 10.x.x.x | Class A Private IP address | 152 | |
14669912053 | 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 | Class B private address range | 153 | |
14670070778 | peer-to-peer network | A type of network that connects two client computers directly together. | 154 | |
14670089931 | client/server network | A network that uses centrally administered computers, known as servers, to enable resource sharing for and to facilitate communication between the other computers on the network. | 155 | |
14684950549 | Segments | Data at the Transport Layer | 156 | |
14684951618 | Packets | Data at the Network Layer | 157 | |
14684953135 | Frames | Data at the Data Link Layer | 158 | |
14684978937 | Logical Link Control | LLC - provides the operating system link to the device driver | 159 | |
14684982267 | Media Access Control Sublayer | MAC Sublayer - translates generic network requests into device-specific terms | 160 | |
14685003676 | SSH | Port 22 | 161 | |
14685003677 | DNS | Port 53 | 162 | |
14685004630 | SMTP | Port 25 | 163 | |
14685004631 | SFTP | Port 22 | 164 | |
14685005571 | FTP | Port 20, 21 | 165 | |
14685006472 | TFTP | Port 69 | 166 | |
14685007477 | TELNET | Port 23 | 167 | |
14685008058 | DHCP | Port 67, 68 | 168 | |
14685008912 | HTTP | Port 80 | 169 | |
14685009963 | HTTPS | Port 443 | 170 | |
14685009964 | SNMP | Port 161 | 171 | |
14685010947 | RDP | Port 3389 | 172 | |
14685011914 | NTP | Port 123 | 173 | |
14685012665 | SIP | Port 5060, 5061 | 174 | |
14685013395 | SMB | Port 445 | 175 | |
14685013396 | POP | Port 110 | 176 | |
14685014199 | IMAP | Port 143 | 177 | |
14685014200 | LDAP | Port 389 | 178 | |
14685014741 | LDAPS | Port 636 | 179 | |
14685015559 | H.323 | Port 1720 | 180 |
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