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Layer 2 Protocols

Link

Protocol

Title

RFC 1334

CHAP

PPP Authentication Protocols

IEEE 802.11AB

LLDP

Link-Layer Discovery Protocol

RFC 1661

PPP

The Point-to-Point Protocol

RFC 2637

PPTP

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

IEEE 802.1q

VLANs

Virtual LANs

Layer 3 Protocols

Link

Protocol

Title

RFC 1518

CIDR

An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR

RFC 2474

DSCP

Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers

RFC 2475

DSCP

Architecture for Differentiated Services

RFC 2597

DSCP

Assured Forwarding PHB Group

RFC 2983

DSCP

Differentiated Services and Tunnels

RFC 2390

IARP

Inverse Address Resolution Protocol

RFC 1332

IPCP

The PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP)

link

IPv4

IPv4 Address Space Allocation

link

IPv4 multi

IPv4 Multicast Addresses

RFC 3022

NAT

Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)

RFC 2328

OSPFv2

OSPF Version 2

link

OSPF

OSPF Working Group

RFC 4601

PIM-SM

Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode: Protocol Specification (Revised)

RFC 1191

PMTU

Path MTU Discovery

RFC 1058

RIP-1

Routing Information Protocol (RIP-1)

RFC 2453

RIP-2

RIP version 2

link

WKPN

Well-Known Port Numbers

RFC 1918

n/a

Address Allocation for Private Internets

Layer 4 Protocols

Link

Protocol

Title

RFC 4422

SASL

Simple Authentication and Security Layer

RFC 4960

SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

RFC 793

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

RFC 768

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

Application-Layer Protocols

Link

Protocol

Title

RFC 2131

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

RFC 959

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

RFC 2616

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

HTTPS

HTTPS

HTTP over SSL

RFC 2818

HTTP-TLS

HTTP Over TLS

RFC 792

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

RFC 2863

IF-MIB

The Interfaces Group MIB

RFC 3501

IMAPv4

Internet Message Access Protocol 4rev 1

RFC 3435

MGCPv1

Media Gateway Control Protocol Version 1.0

RFC 1213

MIB-II

Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II

RFC 3977

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol

RFC 1939

POP3

Post Office Protocol - Version 3

RFC 1831

RPCv2

RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2

RFC 2326

RTSP

Real Time Streaming Protocol

RFC 3261

SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

RFC 2821

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

RFC 1067

SNMPv1

A Simple Network Management Protocol

RFC 1901

SNMPv2c

Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2

RFC 3411

SNMPv3

An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks

RFC 1215

SNMP traps

Convention for defining traps for use with the SNMP

draft

SSH

Secure SHell Internet Draft

RFC 3164

syslog

The BSD Syslog Protocol

RFC 854

Telnet

Telnet Protocol Specification

RFC 1350

TFTP

The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)

Encryption

Link

Protocol

Title

 FIPS-PUB 197

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

RFC 3566

AES-XCBC

The AES-XCBC-MAC-96 Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec

RFC 3664

AES-XCBC

The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE)

  ITU-T X.690

DER

ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)

FIPS-PUB 46-3

DES

Data Encryption Standard (including 3DES)

RFC 2631

DH

Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Method

 FIPS-PUB 186

DSA

Digital Signature Algorithm

RFC 2104

HMAC

HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

RFC 4308

IPsec

Cryptographic Suites for IPsec

RFC 1321

MD5

The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

RFC 1421

PEM-1

Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures

RFC 1422

PEM-2

Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management

RFC 1423

PEM-3

Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers

RFC 1424

PEM-4

Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services

RSA

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman Cryptography Standard

RFC 3174

SHA-1

US Secure Hash Algorithm 1

RFC 3280

X.509

Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile

VPN

Link

Protocol

Title

RFC 4302

AH

IP Authentication Header

RFC 4303

ESP

IP Encapsulating Security Payload

RFC 2784

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation

RFC 2409

IKEv1

The Internet Key Exchange

link

IPsec

IPsec Working Group

RFC 3715

IPsec/NAT

IPsec-Network Address Translation (NAT) Compatibility Requirements

IANA

IPsec Registry

Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Attributes - per RFC 2409 (IKE)

RFC 2408

ISAKMP

Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

RFC 2661

L2TP

Layer Two Tunneling Protocol

RFC 3193

L2TP/IPsec

Securing L2TP using IPsec

RFC 3947

NAT-T

Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE

draft

SCEP

Cisco Systems' Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol

RFC 3948

UDP-encap

UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets

draft

XAUTH

Extended Authentication within ISAKMP/Oakley (XAUTH)

NIST-SP-800-77

n/a

Guide to IPsec VPNs: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Other

Link

Protocol

Title

Bugtraq

Bugtraq

Search for Bugtraq IDs

CVE

CVE

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures List

H.323

H.323

ITU-T Recommendation H.323

H.245

H.245

ITU-T Recommendation H.245

Nessus

Nessus

Search for Nessus plugins

Q.931

Q.931

ITU-T Recommendation Q.931

T.120

T.120

ITU-T Recommendation T.120

NIST-SP-800-41

n/a

Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST-SP-800-94

n/a

Guide to Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology