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Networking for Sysadmins

Each tab is a module or chapter — the broken-down cheat sheet for this resource.

Lucas, Networking for System Administrators (2nd ed.) ch. 1 — the four layers, encapsulation, what changes at each hop, and troubleshooting commands by layer.

Updated Ch. 1

Lucas, Networking for System Administrators (2nd ed.) ch. 2 — interfaces, autonegotiation, MTU and DF ping, ARP and NDP, VLAN terms and datalink error counters.

Updated Ch. 2

Networking for Sysadmins ch. 3 — IPv4 addressing, subnets/netmasks, viewing config on Windows/Debian/FreeBSD, private addressing/NAT, and troubleshooting.

Updated Ch. 3

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