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Linux Administration: A Beginner's Guide, Eighth Edition, 8th Edition

by Wale Soyinka
April 2020
Beginner
688 pages
19h 24m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER

12

TCP/IP for System Administrators

Along with understanding the ins and outs of the workings of a server, system administrators today need to have a reasonably thorough understanding of the network and the protocols used for communicating with other servers, clients, and applications. The usefulness of a networked server that is not receiving or sending information over the network or that has no awareness of the network is slightly suspect!

The most prevalent protocol over which the vast majority of network communications happen is the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol—better known as TCP/IP. This chapter provides an introduction to the guts of TCP/IP. We’ll tackle the contents in two parts: First, we will walk ...

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