FreeBSD6 Unleashed

Chapter 22. Principles of TCP/IP Networking

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introduction to Networking

• Network Topologies

• Network Components

• Wireless Routers

• Network Protocols

• IP Addresses

• Routing

• Hostnames and Domain Names

• The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Automatic IP Addressing

Operating systems used to be designed either for networking or for single-user desktop settings—two styles of computing that were worlds apart. That has all changed. In the present day, the consumer-level, single-user, nonnetworked PC platform is giving way to operating systems whose robustness and networkability put to shame many of the mainframe-class systems of the old days. Mac OS X (with its FreeBSD architecture and Mach kernel) and Windows 2000/XP are both examples ...