RFC Protocol Mappings

Overview

Overview:

The following is a list of the RFC Documentation for each protocol mentioned in the protocol basics section.

Protocol

RFC Document

URL

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

RFC 9293

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9293

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

RFC 2616

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616

HTTPS (HTTP Secure - Encrypted Web Traffic)

RFC 2818

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2818

DNS (Domain Name System)

RFC 1035

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035

VoIP (SIP - Session Initiation Protocol)

RFC 3261

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3261

VoIP (RTP - Real-time Transport Protocol)

RFC 3550

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3550

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)

RFC 826

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc826

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

RFC 2131

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2131

NTP (Network Time Protocol)

RFC 5905

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5905

SMB (Server Message Block - CIFS)

No official RFC (SMB is proprietary, but see Microsoft’s MS-SMB2)

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

RFC 5321

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321

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