List of Protocols in Networking

Layer 1 protocols(physical layer)

– USB Physical layer
– Ethernet physical layer including 10 BASE T, 100 BASE T,100 BASE-TX,100 BASE FX, 1000 BASE T and other variants
– varieties of 802.11 Wi-Fi physical layers
– DSL
– ISDN
– T1 and other T-carrier links
– E1 and other E-carrier links
– Bluetooth physical layer

– CDP
– CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
– Ethernet
– Frame Relay
– HDLC high-level data link control
– IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi
– LLC (Logic Link Control)
– LACP (Link aggregation control protocol)
– LLDP (Link layer discovery protocol)
– LCP (Link Control Protocol)(part of PPP)
– MAC (Media Access Control)
– PAgP Cisco Systems proprietary link aggregation protocol
– PPP (point-to-point protocol)
– STP (spanning tree protocol)
– VTP (VLAN trunking protocol)
– VLAN (Virtual local area network)

Layer 2 or layer 3(some classify it as layer 2 and some layer 3)

– ARP (Address Resolution protocol)
– ProxyARP
– RARP (Reverse Address Resolution protocol)

Layer 3 protocols(Network Layer in OSI or Internet layer in TCP/IP)

– Anti-replay
– ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
– EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
– GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation)
– GLBP (Gateway Load Balancing Protocol)
– HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol)
– Frame Relay
– RIP (Routing Information Protocol)
– RIPv2
– IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing protocol)
– ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
– ICMPv6
– IGMP (Internet Group mangement Protocol)
– IPSec (Internet protocol security)
– IPv4
– IPv6
– IS-IS (Intermediate System – Intermediate system)
– MPLS (Multi-protocol label switching)
– NAT (Network Address Translation)
– OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
– VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)

Layer 4 (transport layer or Host-to-Host layer)

– AH (Authentication header over IP or IPsec)
– TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
– UDP (User Datagram Protocol)

Layer 5 (session layer or application layer in DoD)

– NetBIOS File sharing and name resolution protocol -the basis of file sharing in Windows
– NFS (Network File System)

Layer 7(application layer)

– BitTorrent A peer to peer file sharing system
– BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
– DNS (Domain name System)
– DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
– FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
– HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
– HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol secure)
– IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
– NTP (Network Time Protocol)
– POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3)
– RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol)
– SSH (Secure Shell)
– SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
– SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
– Telnet Remote terminal access protocol
– TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
– URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Protocol Numbers

ProtocolNumber
ICMP1
IGMP2
IPv44
TCP6
EGP8
IGP9
RDP(Reliable Data Protocol)27
IPv641
GRE47
ICMPv658
EIGRP88
OSPF89
VRRP112

These protocol numbers are used in the protocol field in the IP header.

A list of Internet socket port numbers used by protocols of the Transport Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite for the establishment of host-to-host connectivity.

ProtocolTCPUDPPort NO.
FTP data transferTCP20
FTP controlTCP21
FTP controlTCP22
TelnetTCP23
SMTPTCP25
DNSTCPUDP53
BOOTP Server and also used by DHCP UDP67
BOOTP Client and also used by DHCP UDP68
TFTPUDP69
HTTPTCP80
POP2TCP109
POP3TCP110
NTPTCP123
SNMPUDP161
SNMP TrapTCPUDP162
HTTPSTCP443
SyslogUDP514
NFSUDP944

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