The Illustrated Network

Preface

This is not a book on how to use the Internet. It is a book about how the Internet is made useful for you. The Internet is a public global network that runs on TCP/IP, which is frequently called the Internet Protocol Suite. A networking protocol is a set of rules that must be followed to accomplish something, and TCP/IP is actually a synthesis of the first two protocols that launched the Internet in its infancy, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which of course, allowed the transmission of information across the then youthful Internet. TCP/IP is the heart and soul of modern networks, and this book illustrates how that is accomplished. By using TCP/IP, we can observe how modern networks operate by ...