Networking

Cisco's Sandbox. Allows free access to a wide variety of Cisco technologies for development purposes.

https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox/


and the Cisco networking academy

https://www.netacad.com/courses/networking


Network+ training

https://www.professormesser.com/


Security Onion is a fully featured open source network security monitoring platform. It's a fantastic way to learn the practice of NSM.

https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion

https://docs.securityonion.net/


A curated constantly-growing library of infographics for network students

https://github.com/DelfinoRT/Networking-Study-Stuff


IANA's official mapping of ports and services

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml


All the packetlife cheat sheets are useful.

https://packetlife.net/library/cheat-sheets/


How IPSEC works

https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccie-routing-switching/ipsec-internet-protocol-security

Packet Captures (PCAP)

Legendary site with malware traffic samples. Very useful for practicing analysis.

https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/


Chris Sanders of the excellent Practical Packet Analysis book has a library of PCAP

https://github.com/chrissanders/packets


The Zeek (formerly Bro) project has an extensive library

https://github.com/zeek/zeek/tree/master/testing/btest/Traces


As does the Wireshark project itself

https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures


Benign PCAP samples

http://njrusmc.net/jobaid/jobaid.html


Learn Wireshark with sample PCAP's

https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/wireshark.php

DNS

Learn how DNS works. Or indeed doesn't work. "It's not DNS. There is a no way it's DNS. It was DNS"

https://messwithdns.net/