Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX(R) - Hardcover

Carl-Mitchell, Smoot; Quarterman, John S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201586290 ISBN 13: 9780201586299

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1993

Synopsis

TCP/IP and UNIX, both born in the research community, have experienced phenomenal growth and commercial success over the past decade. TCP/IP is the network protocol family of choice on the Internet, the largest and fastest growing data communications network in the world today. UNIX systems, with their mature support of TCP/IP, are a central and growing part of many organizations' networking strategy.
Through a careful blend of network theory and practice, these two network authorities provide readers with the knowledge to understand what TCP/IP is, how it works, and how to use it to build practical and working network systems that are both extensible and maintainable.
Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX, the third in the new UNIX and Open Systems Series by Addison-Wesley, describes in detail how to set up and manage a TCP/IP network using the tools available within the UNIX operating system. Systems designers, network administrators, and system programmers will find the TCP/IP knowledge they need in this concise volume.
Gives a concise foundation in TCP/IP fundamentals, provides extensive coverage of electronic mail configuration in a complex networking environment, explains how to set up and manage an operational TCP/IP network, describes the integration of Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs, and illustrates network management techniques and how to diagnose and solve common network problems.

About this title

About the Author

About Smoot Carl-Mitchell

Smoot Carl-Mitchell is a Managing Partner at Texas Internet Consulting.He received his B.A. in Psychology and his M.A. in Computer Sciencefrom the University of Texas at Austin. He has consulted on numerousprojects including network design, installation, and debugging. Healong with his partner also give seminars on networking issues relatedto the growth, development, and use of TCP/IP.

John S. Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell are partners in Texas Internet Consulting, which consults in networks and open systems with particular emphasis on TCP/IP networks and UNIX systems and standards.

John S. Quarterman is Senior Technical Partner at Texas Internet Consulting, which consults in networks and open systems with particular emphasis on TCP/IP networks, UNIX systems, and standards.He is the author of The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide (Digital Press, 1990), and is a coauthor of UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open Standards Puzzle (1993), Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX (1993), The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration (1994), and The E-Mail Companion: Communicating Effectively via the Internet and Other Global Networks (1994), all published by Addison-Wesley. He is editor of Matrix News, a monthly newsletter about issues that cross network, geographic, and political boundaries, and of Matrix Maps Quarterly; both are published by Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) of Austin, Texas. He is a partner in Zilker Internet Park, which provides Internet access from Austin. He and his wife, Gretchen Quarterman, split their time among his home in Austin, hers in Buffalo, New York, and various other locations.

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From the Back Cover

TCP/IP and UNIX, both born in the research community, have experienced phenomenal growth and commercial success over the past decade. TCP/IP is the network protocol family of choice on the Internet, the largest and fastest growing data communications network in the world today. UNIX systems, with their mature support of TCP/IP, are a central and growing part of many organizations' networking strategy.

Through a careful blend of network theory and practice, these two network authorities provide readers with the knowledge to understand what TCP/IP is, how it works, and how to use it to build practical and working network systems that are both extensible and maintainable.

Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX, the third in the UNIX and Open Systems Series published by Addison-Wesley, describes in detail how to set up and manage a TCP/IP network using the tools available within the UNIX operating system. Systems designers, network administrators, and system programmers will find the TCP/IP knowledge they need in this concise volume.

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From the Inside Flap

This book is a practical guide for building TCP/IP networks with the UNIX operating system, and for using both TCP/IP and UNIX to integrate other network protocols and operating systems into a distributed computing environment. The book is not a protocol theory book, not a programming text, and not a user tutorial. It is about how to make whole networks actually work in practice.

The TCP/IP protocols are used in tens of thousands of networks to connect millions of machines throughout the world. The largest of the collection of networks that use TCP/IP is the Internet. The Internet is the world's largest computer network and has been doubling in size each year since 1988. It had perhaps ten million users by 1993: researchers and academics, corporate employees, librarians and politicians, schoolteachers, and the general public. This global network commune has no central authority. The Internet works because of general agreement on network protocols used and because of cooperation among the users for the good of the network.

Much of the growth of the Internet is in local area networks (LANs) inside both private

and public organizations, as opposed to wide area networks (WANs). Some of these organizations are universities, government agencies, or government contractors, which were the historical research and academic base of TCP/IP. Other LANs are privately owned enterprise networks inside commercial companies.

Many enterprise networks are not interconnected directly with the Internet proper, or are deliberately firewalled from it, so that only authorized corporate users may have access.

The LANs, whether interconnected with the Internet or not, are growing very rapidly, and more of them appear daily. Many of the organizations behind these networks, especially private companies, do not have a tradition of TCP/IP expertise. This is not surprising, because the number of qualified technical personnel in any area does not tend to double annually. The exponential growth of the use of TCP/IP has outstripped the capability of the traditional support community to cope.

Most of these LANs use Ethernet (or IEEE 802.3) technology with TCP/IP. Other LAN technologies, such as FDDI, are even more capable and are growing in use. FDDI, for example, is not yet widespread, and organizations using it tend to be very familiar with it, often having been involved in its development. The predominant LAN technology is still Ethernet, and this is the first LAN technology an organization new to TCP/IP is likely to use, if for no other reason because all the major UNIX workstation vendors sell their computers with a built in Ethernet interface. For these reasons, this book emphasises Ethernet as the local area network technology of choice.

The Book

There are many books about network protocol theory, a few about the networks constructed from those protocols, and some about writing network applications. Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX is about making the most widespread protocol suite and the most widespread general purpose operating system work together in a practical distributed computing environment.

This book is geared towards the knowledgeable UNIX administrator and user who lack a clear idea of what TCP/IP is and how it can be used. We cover a range of topics that are needed in setting up a working network. Also included is some background material on the history of TCP/IP and the Internet.

Since TCP/IP and the Internet are living systems which continue to grow and evolve, we also briefly cover the Internet Standards process as well as other topics relevant to the functioning of the Internet community. This book avoids going into extreme detail on all topics, in the interests of space. Also this book is not written as a reference book, but rather as a guidebook with enough practical examples to emphasis the points being made.

Organization

The book is organized in three parts, Theory, Practice, and Advanced Topics plus a foreword, this preface, appendices, a glossary, and an index. References are included at the end of each chapter.Foreword: In addition to the series foreword, the foreword by Vinton G. Cerf

explains the significance of the book.Part 1: Theory: The first part, which consists of five chapters, describes how the IP

protocol suite is supposed to work. The

first chapter provides an overview of the

entire TCP/IP protocol suite, including

lists of the protocols, and some information

on how their specifications are produced.

The second chapter gives a quick sketch of

TCP/IP

services.

The third chapter

describes the key protocol, IP itself. The

fourth chapter examines the functions of

transport protocols, such as TCP and UDP.

The last chapter discusses the standard

resource naming system used in the Internet

community.Part 2: Practice: The second part of the

book examines how UNIX implementations of

the TCP/IP protocols actually work. The

three chapters in the part treat setting up

basic network services, setting up and man aging electronic mail, and other network

services.Part 3: Advanced Topics: The third part of

the book discusses advanced topics, in three

chapters on integrating Apple Macintoshes

and IBM PCs, network management, and network

debugging.Appendices: Two appendices provide information on where to find protocol specifications and the numerous software packages

mentioned in the book, as well as most of

the programming examples used in the book.References, Glossary, and Index: Numerous

bibliographic citations occur in the text,

and the actual references are gathered at

the end of each chapter. The glossary

defines major (and many minor) terms and

acronyms. The index indicates where they

are used in the text. Expansions of

acronyms are given both in the glossary and

in the index for easy reference.

Readers

Beginning UNIX network system administrators will want to read the whole book, in order.

Readers already familiar with the TCP/IP protocols will probably also find much useful information in the first part of the book, but may want to skip directly to the practical details in the second part.

Experienced system administrators may want to skip directly to the advanced topics in the third part.

Familiarity with network protocol theory will be most helpful to all readers. We include some detail on the theory of how TCP/IP works, but we must assume some basic networking concepts.

Terminology

The book is written in American English. Some familiarity with networking and UNIX is assumed, but jargon is explained when used. The glossary contains definitions of difficult terms.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the reviewers, John Amason, Wayne Hathaway, Doug McCallum, Eugene Pinsky, Clyde Poole, William Selmeier, Barry Shein, Kean Stump, and Edward Vielmetti. All of them gave us valuable insights in how to better present the subject. We would also like to thank Laura Michaels, the copyeditor, who also added much to the clarity of the final book. And finally, we thank the editorial and production staff of Addison-Wesley, Tom Stone, Debbie Lafferty, and Patsy DuMoulin. 0201586290P04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201586290
• ISBN 13: 9780201586299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476