INFSCI 2000 Tutorials

Networking tutorial. INFSCI 2000.

Table of Contents

• Basic Networking Tutorial
• Introduction
• Fundamentals
• TCP/IP Addresses
• TCP/IP Ports
• Host and Domain Names
• HTTP and networking
• Examples with FTP
• DHCP
• hardware
• OSI 7 layer model
• Networking commands
• PING
• NSLOOKUP
• NETSTAT
• ipconfig
• ifconfig
• Take a Quiz
• Glossary

Computer Networks provide an infinite source of research and study topics. You will want to study networks in order to apply many of the topics you will learn in Information Science.

In your professional career and in your personal life you will find it necessary to diagnose and possibly correct problems with networking. Just to be successfully viewing this tutorial you may have gathered some basic knowledge or encountered many difficulties.

This tutorial focuses on troubleshooting TCP/IP networking. Troubleshooting requires a knowledge of the system and a set of tools. In this case we are troubleshooting a TCP/IP network connection by using the commands provided within the operating system.

The first few tutorial pages introduce the basics of TCP/IP. The remainder of the tutorial is about the use of the commands that we can use to troubleshoot problems.