Resources for those beginning networking. Made for the DevOps crowd but (hopefully) should really be useful for anyone.
Please feel free to submit pull requests!
- The Free TCP/IP Book
- MS Networking Essentials - totally worth while, honest!
- Juniper Training
- Linux Networking Howto
- Gentoo Networking Guide
- APC Datacenter University
- Ops School Networking 101
- Chef Cisco Cookbook for NXOS
- JPupper for Junos/Puppet
- rConfig Open Source Netowrk Config Management
- Arch Wiki Working with the Serial Console
A collections of (mostly) free tools. Where not specified, these will be free and for *nix operating systems, though you might have luck with Homebrew on MacOS and Cygwin on Windows.
- The Dude Network Mapper (Windows-only, free)
- LucidChart (SaSS Freemium)
- Visio (Windows, $$$, de facto standard unfortunately)
- yED (Free, Mac/Win/Linux)
- Gliffy (SaSS Freemium)
- LibreOffice Draw VRT Stencils
- ntopng - Web-based Traffic Monitoring
- smokeping - Web-based ping checker - Ubuntu Install Guide (Sparse)
- rancid - Open Source Network Configuration Management Howto: Network Backups with RANCID
- iptraf - Command Line IP Traffic Monitor - IPTraf User's Guide
- mtr - My TraceRoute, Console Alternative to Pingplot Diagnosing Issues with MTR
- LFT - Layer Four Traceroute - LFT Intro
- DiG DNS Tool Beginner's Guide
- nmap - Nmap from Beginner to Advanced (InfoSec)
- nc/Netcat Guide to Netcat from Digital Ocean, Netcat cheet sheet
- Multiping / PingPlotter (OSX/iOS/Windows, not free)
- screen - Useful for Serial Connections as Well!
- sipcalc (subnet calc) - Ubuntu Sipcalc Manpage
- GNS3 Network Sim
Who said networking couldn't be fun? Here are some links that will distract you but are network-related.