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An Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and Protocols

Updated on October 4, 2022
πŸ‘ An Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and Protocols

Introduction

An understanding of networking is important for anyone managing a server. Not only is it essential for getting your services online and running smoothly, it also gives you the insight to diagnose problems.

This article will provide an overview of some common networking concepts. We will discuss terminology, common protocols, and the responsibilities and characteristics of the different layers of networking.

This guide is operating system agnostic, but should be very helpful when implementing features and services that utilize networking on your server.

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Former Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, specializing in DevOps topics across multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, as well as Debian 10 and 11.

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Define the network terminology, server. network interface card.

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wonderfully written article about the fundamentals of networking.

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What is network terminology? Explain me sr

This resource was helpful. Thanks.

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TCP is the protocol of choice for many of the most popular uses for the internet, including WWW, FTP, SSH, and email. It is safe to say that the internet we know today would not be here without TCP.

WWW = HTTP

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