August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
39h 57m
English
book
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition
by Trent R. Hein, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin
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TCP/IP Networking |
It would be hard to overstate the importance of networks to modern computing, although that doesn’t seem to stop people from trying. At many sites—perhaps even the majority—web and email access are the primary uses of computers. As of 2017, internetworldstats.com estimates the Internet to have more than 3.7 billion users, or just slightly less than half of the world’s population. In North America, Internet penetration approaches 90%.
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the networking system that underlies the Internet. TCP/IP does not depend on any particular hardware or operating ...