Networking Overview CTIN February 10, 2000 Sandy Bacik, Senior Security Consultant Breakwater Security Associates
Agenda Terminology Network technologies and architectures Operating systems IP addresses and domains Internet
Terminology Server Client A computer on the network BUT shares resources A computer on the network BUT uses the shared resources
Terminology NIC Network Interface Card, network adaptor LAN Local Area Network, physical cable limitation of 500-600 feet
Terminology WAN Wide Area Network MAN Metropolitan Area Network
Types of Networks Peer-to-Peer Server Based
Peer-to-Peer
Server-Based
Network Topologies Bus Star Ring Combination: Star Bus Star Ring Mesh
Bus Network Topology
Star Network Topology
Ring Network Topology
Star Bus Network Topology
Star Ring Network Topology
Mesh Network Topology
Network Architecture Ethernet Token Ring ARCNet AppleTalk FDDI
Network Protocols TCP/IP IPX/SPX NetBEUI
Reference Model
TCP/IP related to OSI stack
IPX/SPX related to OSI stack
NetBEUI related to OSI stack
TCP Session Setup Session setup using 3-way handshake
TCP Session Termination Aborting a connection (reset)
UDP Packet Header information Source Port Destination Port Datagram Length Checksum
TCP Packet Header information Source Port Destination Port Sequence Number Acknowledgement Number Header Length Flags Window Advertisement Checksum Urgent Pointer
Network Operating Systems Novell Netware Windows NT UNIX
IP Addresses 192  .  168  .  124  .  123 http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ssr90/ptc_r_90/54084.htm
Request for Comments (RFC) http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html Use search engines to look for specific RFCs or topics for an RFC
Subnet Masking 255.0.0.0 Class A 255.255.0.0 Class B 255.255.255.0 Class C
DNS Top-Level Domains .com .edu .gov .mil .net .org .int . xx
Internet Services WWW Electronic Mail  FTP Newsgroups Telnet Gopher
Thank you Contact: Sandy Bacik email: san04@att.net phone: 253-661-9327

Networking Overview