Chapter 6
Dealing with TCP/IP
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting a handle (or two) on the binary system
Digging into IP addresses
Finding out how subnetting works
Understanding private and public IP addresses
Looking at network address translation
Finding out how DHCP works
Understanding how DNS works
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol — TCP/IP — is the basic protocol by which computers on a network talk to each other. Without TCP/IP, networks wouldn’t work. In this chapter, I introduce you to the most important concepts of TCP/IP.
This chapter is far and away the most technical chapter in this book. It helps you examine the binary system, the details of how IP addresses are constructed, ...
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