Hands-On TCP/IP - Softcover

Simoneau, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0079126405 ISBN 13: 9780079126405

Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill, 1997

Synopsis

A vital on-the-job resource for network administrators, this book/CD-ROM package explains how TCP/IP really works, how the individual protocols interact, and how to find the pieces that show what is going on in each packet of data. Included is in-depth coverage of IPv6 (the next generation Internet protocol). The value-adding CD-ROM features hard-to-find protocol analysis tools, complete files of data collected from working networks, and requests for comments.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Simoneau is president of NeuroLink, Ltd., an international consulting, research, and education company that services such clients as Cisco, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, US West, the U.S. Armed Forces, Hewlett Packard, and SPRINT. He is also a senior instructor and course director for American Research Group, the systems and communications training company that pioneered the course upon which this book/CD-ROM package is based, and a principal of Libra Square Ltd., an Internet marketing company. A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and Webster University, Mr. Simoneau is based in Walkersville, Maryland.

From the Back Cover

Teach yourself all about the dynamic TCP/IP suite. This package makes it easy!

For network administrators, here is the world's best bit-and-byte-level guide to working with the TCP/IP suite. Based on the leading international hands-on TCP/IP course, it goes beyond theory and specifications to show you how TCP/IP really works. . .what tasks each protocol should do. . .and how those tasks get done.

Use this book/CD-ROM package as a self-study tutorial or a desktop reference. Either way, you'll find:

• a truly hands-on approach that applies to your daily work
• in-depth coverage of IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol
• excellent troubleshooting material exercises with data from the author's real-world experiences
• hard-to-find protocol analysis tools and files of data collected from working networks (on the accompanying CD-ROM)
• sample decoded messages, segments, packets, and sessions to use in place of the protocol analysis data or to support your ongoing explorations

Edition details

• Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0079126405
• ISBN 13: 9780079126405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 375