October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1648 pages
47h 34m
English
The idea of singling out any one protocol as being more important than the others in a network is kind of pointless, if you think about it. The protocols and technologies work as a team to accomplish the goal of communication across the network. As with any team, no single member can get the job done alone, no matter how good it is. Still, if we were to try to pick a "most valuable player" in the world of networking, a good case could be made that we have it in the TCP/IP Internet Protocol (IP).
Even though it gets second billing in the name of the TCP/IP protocol suite, IP is the workhorse of TCP/IP. It implements ...
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