Networking and Protocols: 101 Notes

I recently did a brush up course on Networking/Protocols 101’s. Making my notes public. Networking Basics / Protocols: Mental model to think about all protocols: A few notes about different Protocols: Network layer protocol: Transport layer protocol: TCP: UDP: Other Protocols: HTTP: SMTP: XMPP: MQTT: AWS Networking: Local Zone: Edge location: Understanding IPv4, IPv6 IPv4 IPv6 Classes IPv4 How to read CIDR noation: AWS VPC: Interacting with VPC: Internet Gateway (IGW) Subnet: Route table NACL: Networking Basics / Protocols: There are 7 layers of communications as defined in OSI (Open systems Interconnection) model ...

June 19, 2025 · 15 min · Akshay Deshpande