Tcp/ip For Dummies, 2e - Softcover

Leiden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764500635 ISBN 13: 9780764500633

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

If you don't know the rules for the Internet, intranets, and extranets, you can't play the game! With TCP/IP For Dummies, 2nd Edition, you'll discover the communication rules for networks as well as the protocols for networks connected to the Internet. TCP/IP is no longer just for network administrators. This book helps you understand everything you've been hearing about TCP/IP in no time. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Find out the rules for all communications over the Internet Understand how the World Wide Web would crumble without TCP/IP Demystify TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) like OSI, NIS, DNS, and ARP Enhance your network by figuring out how devices like modems, bridges, and routers work with TCP/IP Discover how the next generation of IP will affect your network Keep the bad guys out by securing your networks with firewalls, encryption, and other techniques Discover answers to your most frequently asked questions, such as: Are security and TCP/IP mutually exclusive? Uncover the difference between the Internet, any internet, and an intranet Plus, Candace and Marshall's Top Ten Lists: Ten types of networks Ten strange but real TCP/IP network devices Ten important requests for comments (RFCs)

About this title

Review:

TCP/IP for Dummies aims to decode the protocols and executables that underlie the Internet and other networks that comply with its data communications standards. By combining how-to information that explains how to configure TCP/IP networking on various Microsoft Windows systems (including Windows 2000) with plenty of academic material on how Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) work, the authors deliver considerable value to their readers. There ought to be TCP/IP configuration coverage of Linux and Mac OS--TCP/IP is, after all, ideal for heterogeneous networking--but the detailed information about the stack's workings offsets the hands-on shortcomings.

The authors spend a bit too long explaining elementary stuff about the Internet. Still, they unravel Internet phenomena very clearly, explaining for example that FTP is a protocol, a service, and an application in complete TCP/IP suites. Dummies books are big on using analogies to explain technical subjects; this book uses food and a set of dinnerware as an analogy for the TCP/IP software, and sometimes distracts from its educational objective by struggling to make the comparison fit. Regardless, the authors succeed in explaining an important and complex set of internetworking technologies to readers with no prior TCP/IP experience. You'll appreciate the background this book provides if you are planning to configure a small TCP/IP network or work your way toward more elaborate jobs. --David Wall

Review:

a definitive learners guide, an amusing one a great starter kit (IT Training, June 2003)

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0764500635
• ISBN 13: 9780764500633
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416