Collection of all Lecture Modules of Manfred Lindner

Last actualized 2012-09-09

The following lecture notes have been created between 1995 and 2011 to provide 1.) an introduction into nearly all data communication topics (historical, legacy and modern) and 2.) a compact background reference for recalling already understood topics just on demand. I regulary improve the lecture notes (marked differently to avoid duplicate downloads). You can use these modules freely on your own risk 1.) for you private self-study purpose and 2.) for non-commercial education (e.g. universities, schools, ect.) as long as you take the course material as it is and do not change the material (especially authors copyright notice) in any way. Please contact me if you have other plans. Any constructive feedback on the material (e.g. errors found, mistakes, usefulness, enhancements, contributions, links) is welcome.

Data Communication Fundamentals

Chapter 01 - Transmission Principles (V4.5)

Chapter 02 - Protocol Principles (V4.8)

Chapter 03 - High level Data Link Control, HDLC (V4.4)

Chapter 04 - Time Division Multiplexing, TDM (V4.7)

Chapter 05 - Network Principles (V4.10)

Wide Area Network (WAN) Technologies

Chapter 10 - X.25 (V4.3)

Chapter 11 - ISDN (V4.7)

Chapter 12 - Frame Relay (V4.3)

Chapter 13 - Telecommunication Backbones, PDH, SDH (V3.4)

Chapter 14 - Asynchronous Transfer Mode, ATM (V4.3)

Chapter 15 - ATM Quality of Service, QoS (V4.3)

Chapter 16 - ATM Routing, PNNI (V4.3)

Local Area Network (LAN) Technologies

Chapter 20 - LAN Principles, MAC, LLC (V4.7)

Chapter 21 - Legacy Ethernet, CSMA/CD, Framing, Repeater (V4.7)

Chapter 22 - Transparent Bridging, Spanning Tree, Ethernet Switching (V4.12)

Chapter 23 - VLAN's and High Speed Ethernet, The Ethernet Evolution (V4.11)

Chapter 24 - Token Ring (V3.4)

Chapter 25 - Source Route Bridging (V3.4)

Chapter 26 - FDDI (V3.3)

Chapter 27 - DQDB, Metropolitan Area Network (V3.4)

Wireless LAN (WLAN) Technologies

Link to the best lectures about WLAN technology discoverable in the Internet (with the friendly permission of Herbert Haas)

TCP/IP Technology

Chapter 30 - TCP/IP Technology Fundamentals, IP Addressing, IP Forwarding (V4.6)

Chapter 31 - IP Technology in Detail, IP, ICMP, ARP, PPP (V4.7)

Chapter 32 - IP Routing Overview, Static-, Default-, Dynamic-Routing (V4.5)

Chapter 33 - Internet´s Transport Layer, TCP, TCP Performance, UDP (V4.5)

Chapter 34 - Internet´s Name Service, DNS (V4.4)

Chapter 35 - Network Address Translation, NAT (V4.3)

IP Routing

Chapter 40 - Routing Information Protocol, RIP (V4.6)

Chapter 41 - Open Shortest Path First, OSPF (V4.5)

Chapter 42 - OSPF Advanced Topics, Areas, Header Details (V4.4)

Chapter 43 - Cisco´s Routing Protocols, IGRP, EIGRP (V3.5)

Chapter 44 - Classful/Classless Routing, Advanced IP Address Design, CIDR (V4.6)

Chapter 45 - Introduction Internet Routing, IGP, EGP, AS (V4.5)

Chapter 46 - Border Gateway Protocol Fundamentals, BGP (V4.7)

Chapter 47 - BGP Routing based on AS-Path Attribute (V4.4)

Chapter 48 - BGP Policy based on BGP Attributes (V4.5)

Chapter 49 - BGP Advanced Topics, Route Refelector, Multiprotocol BGP (V4.4)

TCP/IP Standard Applications

Chapter 60 - BootP, DHCP, TFTP (V4.4)

Chapter 61 - Virtual Terminal (Telnet, SSH), File Transfer (FTP) (V4.4)

Chapter 62 - Email (SMTP, POP, IMAP, MIME) (V4.3)

Chapter 63 - Elements of WWW (HTML, URL, HTTP, Browser, Server) (V4.3)

Chapter 64 - Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP (V4.0)

IP for Multimedia

Chapter 70 - Multicasting Fundamentals (V4.4)

Chapter 71 - IP Multicasting, RTP, RTPC (V4.4)

Chapter 72 - IP Quality of Service Introduction (V4.3)

Chapter 73 - IP QoS Integrated Services (IntSrv) Model (V4.3)

Chapter 74 - IP QoS Differentiated Services (DiffSrv) Model (V4.3)

Chapter 75 - Voice over IP (V1.1)

Advanced IP Topics

Chapter 80 - IP Version 6 (V4.6)

Chapter 81 - IP over WAN (V4.3)

Chapter 82 - IP over ATM, MARS/MCS, LANE, NHRP, MPOA (V4.2)

Chapter 83 - The Way to IP Switching (V3.5)

Chapter 84 - Introduction to VPN, VPDN (V4.3)

Chapter 85 - Multiprotocol Label Switching, MPLS (V4.5)

Chapter 86 - MPLS VPN (V4.6)

Internet Security

Chapter 90 - Introduction to Security (V4.8)

Chapter 91A - Security Problems LAN Layer (V4.9)

Chapter 91B - Security Problems TCP/IP Level (V4.7)

Chapter 91C - Defense Techniques (Firewall, Intrusion Detection) (V4.6)

Chapter 91D - Introduction to IP Security Components and Crypto Terms (V4.5)

Chapter 92 - Traditional Cryptography (V4.5)

Chapter 93 - Secret-Key Cryptography (V4.3)

Chapter 94 - Public-Key Cryptography (V4.7)

Chapter 95 - Integrity (MAC), Authentication, Digital Signature (V4.7)

Chapter 96 - SSL, PGP, Kerberos (V4.4)

Chapter 97 - IPsec (V4.7)

Chapter 98 - SSH, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (V4.3)

Network Design and Network Planning Aspects

Chapter 101 - L2 Network Design (V1.5)

Chapter 102 - First Hop Redundancy (HSRP,VRRP,GLBP), Server Balancing (V1.7)

Chapter 103 - WAN Design (V1.3)