Unix Guides and Practice
Which Unix skills do I need?
For students entering CS 160B or CS
260, please try:
CIS
167 Practice exercises and Summary of Terms to know.
For students entering CNIT 270, please
try: CNIT
270 Pre-Req Skills
Web-based
Unix
Help at CCSF
BASH
Shell
Home Page (with link to great FAQ)
Unix
Command-Line Editing Summary
Some other sources of helpful information on Unix, Data
Communications, the Internet
UC Berkeley Computer Science Department's large list of online
docs: UCB
Online
Computer Guides.
FAQ Collections from the
Internet
newsgroups.
W.
Stallings, Business
Data Communications, another telecommunications web site.
Comparison
of
OSI
and TCP/IP models from Stallings.
Watts,
Volts,
Amps, and Ohms from howstuffworks.com
Electomagnetic
Spectrum
and Transmission Media from Stallings.
Decibels
explained
Red Hat Linux, includes
installation
support and links to many other linux sites.
IETF, Internet Engineering Task
Force.
Great
place for technical Internet info and RFC's.
Internet Society. The parent
body
of
the IETF. Great source of history, background info, and late-breaking
news.
My Brief
Step-By-Step Guide to subnetting
3Com
Study
Guide on IP addressing and Subnets (65 pages). Includes
Practice
Exercises.
Great site
for self-study on Subnetting
Other
Technical
Info
at the 3Com Website.
University of
New
Hampshire
IP Routing Tutorials and Resources
ACM, Association of Computing
Machinery.
The premier association for computing professionals.
IEEE - The premier
association for all kinds of engineers.
Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility
works on policy issues and the Internet.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
also
works
on policy issues and the Internet.
Institute for Global Communications,
helping
nonprofits and social change groups use the Internet.
Boardwatch Magazine, an
old
BBS and Internet magazine. (For more magazines, see the Stallings
book website.)
Network Magazine.
Computers
and
Health - A Checklist.
Internet Traffic
Reports
(graphical).
Internet Traffic Maps
(via McAfee)
Internet Traffic Maps
(vis Akamai)
Good Overview of NAT
Cisco
NAT
Getting
Started Guide
Windows-based NAT shareware
Download
Protocol
Inspector from Fluke
Download Wireshark, a free
network
analyzer
for Unix and Windows
