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Advanced JAVA Networking
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Advanced JAVA Networking

by Richard Steflik, Prashant Sridharan
April 2000
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
9h 59m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 2. TCP/IP Fundamentals

  • In the Beginning…

  • IP Addresses

  • Protocols

In the Beginning…

At the very heart of Java networking (and most other internetworking) is TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol). TCP/IP is a protocol suite (i.e., a set of rules for exchanging information) that sits between an application and a network that enables an application (object) on one node of a network to pass information back and forth to another application (object) residing on another node of the network. The approach used by TCP/IP to do this is to arrange the protocol into layers of subprotocols that each have their own specific function(s) that, when used together, provide a rich functionality and an orderly approach to data communications. ...

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