Knowledge Base

Title Authors Category Updated
Wireshark Color Filters Tutorial Jeff Laird

Explains the use of PTP color filters in Wireshark. Goes with the file: (IOL_PTP_Wireshark_color_filters.txt)

Tutorials March 10, 2012
DSL Physical Layer Testing Lincoln Lavoie (UNH-IOL)

An overview to DSL Physical Layer Testing.

Tutorials February 24, 2012
Basics of DSL Bonded Physical Layer Testing Lincoln Lavoie (UNH-IOL)

An overview to DSL Bonded Physical Layer Testing.

Tutorials February 24, 2012
TR-069 - A Crash Course Jason Walls, Tim Sheehan

A detailed overview of the CPE WAN Management Protocol as specified in Broadband Forum Technical Report 069 and related documents

Tutorials December 21, 2009
Implementing DHCPv6 on an IPv6 Network Benjamin Long

Information about implementing a DHCPv6 system in an existing IPv6 netowrk.

Tutorials August 11, 2009
Fibre Channel Physical Layer Tutorial Daniel Reynolds

FC-PI-2 specifies both Electrical and Optical interfaces for Fibre Channel. This document focuses on the Electrical Physical Layer up to 4G speeds. This document describes the unique characteristics specific for FC devices as well attempts to introduce the generic topics involved in serial based technologies.

Tutorials June 22, 2009
Data Center Bridging Tutorial Mikkel Hagen

Describes the upcoming IEEE standards related to Per-priority PAUSE, Enhanced Transmission Selection, DCB Exchange and Congestion Notification.

Tutorials February 1, 2009
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Tutorial Mikkel Hagen

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a data center protocol designed to transfer Fibre Channel frames over commodity Ethernet equipment.

Tutorials November 25, 2008
Routing OSPFv2 Guide UNH-IOL

This document describes the OSPF Protocol.

Tutorials July 21, 2008
TCP Testing Requirements (Test Plan Supplement) UNH-IOL

The purpose of this document is to specify requirements to perform the Transmission Control Protocol Test Specification.

Tutorials March 12, 2007
Clause 40 Auto-Crossover White Paper Matthew Hersh

A brief tutorial that covers the basics behind the Clause 40 Automatic MDI/MDI-X Configuration.

Tutorials April 18, 2006
WPA-PSK: Step-by-Step Jeremy deVries

In today's age of ubiquitous SOHO networks and ever more Wi-Fi in laptops, security is a paramount concern. Unsecured or improperly set up wireless networks can leave you vulnerable to intrusion, viruses, hijacking of bandwidth, and more problems than one can list, which is why properly setting up your secured network using an authentication mechanism such as WPA-PSK is a crucial step in creating a wireless network. This article provides an overview of the Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key (WPA-PSK) security mechanism, and a step-by-step guide to securing your wireless network.

Tutorials September 30, 2005
Clause 28 Auto-Negotiation Basic Introduction Matthew Hersh

View this for a basic introduction to Copper and Fiber Ethernet Auto-Negotiation.

Tutorials August 5, 2005
How to Make Cable Plants Jon Beck and Austin Boech

An overview of how the UNH-IOL Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet Consortia create the cable plants that are used during InterOperability testing for 1000BASE-T devices.

Tutorials December 10, 2004
EFM OAM Tutorial Kevin Daines

Tutorial generated by the IEEE EFM task force.

Tutorials March 1, 2004
Clause 24: 100BASE-X Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS)

An overview of the 100BASE-TX PCS created by the UNH-IOL.

Tutorials January 1, 2004
Clause 28 & 40 Auto-Negotiation: An Introduction to the Auto-Negotiation process Jeff Lapak

A brief introduction to auto-negotiation created by the UNH-IOL.

Tutorials January 1, 2004
Clause 40: 1000BASE-T Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) Sublayer

1000BASE-T PMA overview (location in the OSI stack, interface with PCS, interface with Auto-Negotiation, PAM-5 Encoding Scheme, PMA Sublayers Functionality and Functions, and PMA Electrical Specifications).

Tutorials January 1, 2004
Clause 37: Auto-Negotiation David Estes

An introduction to the Clause 37 Auto-Negotiation Process.

Tutorials January 1, 2004
Presentation on the 10GEC Bob Noseworthy

Presented at the 10Gigabit Ethernet User Conference, Nov 1 2002

Tutorials November 5, 2002
VDSL Modulation Schemes: MCM vs. SCM Tim Clark (UNH-IOL)

This presentation provides an overview and comparison of the two proposed VDSL modulation schemes.

Tutorials October 2, 2002
VDSL MCM Simulation Tim Clark (UNH-IOL)

An introduction to MCM for VDSL.

Tutorials October 2, 2002
10 Gigabit Ethernet Clause 48 Tutorial Vinod Venkatavaradan

Clause 48 overview

Tutorials December 12, 2001
10 Gigabit Ethernet Clause 53 Tutorial Eric Lynskey

See Title.

Tutorials October 22, 2001
10 Gigabit Ethernet Clause 49 Tutorial Sowmya Luckoor

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Tutorials October 22, 2001