Specifications

Chapter 1 Understanding Networking and IP Addressing
Additional Information
Niagara Release 2.3
Niagara Networking & Connectivity Guide Revised: May 22, 2002
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Request For Comment (RFC) documents are used for communicating standards,
specifications, and other information about the Internet. RFCs are developed by the
Internet Engineering Task Force, considered by the Internet Engineering Steering
Group, and disseminated by the Internet Society as international standards. The RFC
Editor is responsible for preparing and organizing standards in their final form. You
can find the RFCs published at many sites, including: http://www.rfc-editor.org/
and
http://www.ietf.org/
.
Table 1-15 lists the RFC number applicable to the concepts covered in this section.
Fundamentals of
Networking
“The World of Computer Networking: A Primer”, 1995, Nortel
Networks, Limited, available from
http://spark.nstu.nsk.su/BayNetworks/Products/Papers/wp/wp-
primer.html
“Networking Tutorials”, 2001, Lantronix, Inc., available from
http://www.lantronix.com/learning/tutorials/index.html
Fundamentals of IP
addressing and routing
“IP Routing, Parts 1-6”, 2000, Peter Morrissey, available from
http://www.networkcomputing.com/netdesign/1122ipr.html
“Introduction to the Internet Protocols”, 1987, Charles L.
Hedrick, Rutgers University, available from
http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/
Ports “TCP and UDP Port Assignments”, Windows 2000 Resource
Kit, 2001, Microsoft Corporation, available from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/sample
chapters/cnfc/cnfc_por_gdqc.asp
“Well Known, Registered, and Dynamic and/or Private Ports”,
Internet Assigned Numbers Association (IANA), available from
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
WINS “Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS): Architecture and
Capacity Planning”, 2000, Microsoft Corporation, available from
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/commnet/WI
NS/WINSwp98/WINS01-12.asp
Table 1-14 Sources for more information about covered topics.
Concept Source
Table 1-15 Applicable RFCs.
Concept Applicable RFC(s)
Broadcasting 919, 922
DHCP and BootP 2131, 2132
Domain names 1033, 1034, 1035
Dynamic DNS 2136
IP Allocation 2050
Internet Protocol 791
Ports 793, 768
Private Address Space 1918
Subnetting 950