The various IEEE LAN/MAN specifications

Some of the more interesting specs or working groups:

802.1d

Ethernet Bridges (Spanning Tree Protocol)

802.1p

QOS

802.1q

VLANs

802.1s

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

802.1w

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

802.1x

Port Authentication

802.2

Logical Link Control – used mainly for NetWare in the past

802.3

Ethernet

802.2a

Port Aggregation

802.3ab

1000BaseT (Gigabit Ethernet over Copper)

802.3ae

10 Gigabit Ethernet

802.3ad

Trunk Aggregation (see LinuxEthernetBonding)

802.3af

Power Over EtherNet?

802.3p

VLAN priority tagging

802.3u

100BaseT (Fast Ethernet)

802.3x

Flow Control

802.3z

1000BaseSX/LX (Gigabit Ethernet over Fibre)

802.5

TokenRing

802.11

WirelessEthernet

802.16

Broadband Wireless Access. WiMax is part of this working group

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