Cybersecurity Networking Guide
1. IP: IPv4=32-bit ([Link]), IPv6=128-bit. Public: Internet routable. Private:
[Link]/8,172.16-31,192.168/16. Subnetting: CIDR /24 means [Link].
2. MAC: Physical NIC address (Layer2). IP is logical (Layer3).
3. OSI: L1 Physical-cables. L2 Data Link-MAC, switches. L3 Network-IP, routing. L4
Transport-TCP/UDP. L5 Session-connections. L6 Presentation-encryption. L7
Application-HTTP,DNS etc.
4. Ports: HTTP80 HTTPS443 FTP21 SSH22 DNS53 DHCP67/68 SMB445 RDP3389
5. Hub broadcasts all. Switch forwards by MAC. Router forwards between networks
using IP.
6. WiFi: WPA2(AES), WPA3(stronger authentication).
7. Commands: ping, traceroute/tracert, nslookup, ipconfig/ifconfig/ip addr.