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Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion
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Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion

by Charlie Russel, Sharon Crawford, Jason Gerend
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1632 pages
43h 48m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 15. Understanding TCP/IP

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite 467

IP Addresses and What They Mean 471

Routing and Subnets 475

Name Resolution 478

IP Version 6 489

Summary 491

After years of proprietary protocols vying for popularity, TCP/IP has emerged as the only protocol needed by most networks. Every modern computer supports TCP/IP, as do a growing number of other devices such as printers, network appliances, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cell phones. Additionally, Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows, and Apple’s Mac OS have been using TCP/IP as their preferred network protocol for some time now. The only reason to use another protocol suite is to achieve compatibility with older systems.

Although the basics of setting up TCP/IP on a server ...

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