Organization
This book is divided into three parts: fundamental concepts, tutorial, and reference. The first three chapters are a basic discussion of the TCP/IP protocols and services. This discussion provides the fundamental concepts necessary to understand the rest of the book. The remaining chapters provide a how-to tutorial. Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 discuss how to plan a network installation and configure the basic software necessary to get a network running. Chapter 6 through Chapter 10 discuss how to set up various important network services. The final chapters, Chapter 11 through Chapter 13, cover how to perform the ongoing tasks that are essential for a reliable network: troubleshooting, security, and keeping up with changing network information. The book concludes with four appendixes that are technical references for important configuration files.
This book contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1 gives the history of TCP/IP, a description of the structure of the protocol architecture, and a basic explanation of how the protocols function.
Chapter 2 describes addressing, and how data passes through a network to reach the proper destination.
Chapter 3 discusses the relationship between clients and server systems, and the various services that are central to the function of a modern internet.
Chapter 4 begins the discussion of network setup and configuration. This chapter discusses the preliminary configuration planning needed before you configure the systems on your network. ...
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