Microsoft® Windows 7 Unleashed

Appendix B. Understanding TCP/IP

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• What Is TCP/IP?

• Understanding IP

• Understanding TCP

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	They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.
	--Senator Ted Stevens

One of Windows 7’s major goals is to simplify networking, a topic that’s all too often complex, arcane, even incomprehensible. Indeed, for many users, the only “networking” chore they have to perform on the Windows 7 machine is connecting it to their network’s router or switch. That’s as it should be, because most small network users don’t want to become network administrators; they just want Windows 7 to do its job ...