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Last Updated: 30 June 2001
Useful Web SitesA chapter-by-chapter list of related web sites. This includes all active sites listed in the book, plus other useful sites. Suggestions welcome.
Course Support Materials
Student Resource Site:
Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-LAN6e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to 
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PDF
Viewgraphs: On-line transparency masters of many of the figures from
the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, compressed using ZIP. See several
of the web sites listed below for additional slides and lecture notes.
Tables:
On-line transparency masters of all the tables from the book in PDF format.
NOTICE: No password is required for any downloads. Downloading sometimes fails, either because your browser mistakenly assumes a password is needed or for other reasons. If so, try using another browser or an FTP package. If that doesn't work, there might be a problem at your end or at your ISP, perhaps a firewall issue. Then you would need to talk to a system manager on your end.
LAN CoursesInstructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. I would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
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Suggestions, Please
If you have any suggestions for site content, please contact me at . In particular, please pass along links to relevant web sites and links to course pages used by instructors teaching from this book.
Useful Web
Sites
LAN Interoperability
Lab: University of New Hampshire (equipment testing for ATM, FDDI, Fast
Ethernet, FDSE, Ethernet, OSPF, Network Management (SNMP), Token Ring, VG-AnyLAN).
Network World:
Information and links to resources about data communications and networking
Vendors: Links
to thousands of hardware and software vendors who currently have WWW sites,
as well as a list of thousands of computer and networking companies in a
Phone Directory.
IEEE Communications
Society: Good way to keep up on conferences, publications, etc. Has
an on-line copy of my article on IPv6, which updates material in the book.
ACM Special Interest
Group on Communications (SIGCOMM): Good way to keep up on conferences,
publications, etc
Telecommunications
Technology Resources Page: Excellent source of links covering numerous
topics.
Cabletesting:
Details on standards for LAN copper and fiber optic cabling, standards bodies,
industry definitions, and troubleshooting recommendations.
Networking
Links: Excellent collection of links related to TCP/IP.
OSI History: A brief history
of the origins of the OSI model.
Anixter, Inc:
Source of information about communications technology, products, conferences,
and publications.
IEEE
802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee: Status and documents on all of the
working groups.
Charles
Spurgeon's Ethernet Web Site: Status and documents on all of the working
groups.
10 Gigabit
Ethernet Alliance: An open forum whose purpose is to promote industry
cooperation in the development of 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
IEEE
802.3 10 Gbps Ethernet Task Force: This group is developing a 10-Gbps
Ethernet standard. The Web site includes an email archive and the documentation
developed so far.
Fibre Channel
Association: Includes tutorials, white papers, links to vendors, and
descriptions of Fibre Channel applications
Storage Network Industry
Association: An industry forum of developers, integrators, and IT professionals
who evolve and promote storage networking technology and solutions
Wireless LAN Association:
Gives an introduction to the technology, including a discussion of implementation
considerations, and case studies from users. Links to related sites.
WiFi Alliance: An industry group promoting the interoperabiltiy of 802.11 products with each other and with Ethernet.
ATM
Hot Links: Excellent collection of white papers and links.
ATM Forum: Leading
the effort to expand the functionality of ATM networks.
Cell
Relay Retreat: Contains archives of the cell-relay mailing list, links
to numerous ATM-related documents, and links to many ATM-related web sites.
Simple Web Site:: Maintained by the University of Twente. It is a good source of information on SNMP, including pointers to many public-domain implementations and lists of books and articles.