TCP/IP For Dummies? - Softcover

Leiden, Candace; Wilensky, Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764507265 ISBN 13: 9780764507267

Publisher: For Dummies, 2000

Synopsis

If you want to keep up on the ever-changing technology of networking and the Internet, you'll like this friendly guide, which now covers the latest protocols as well as Windows 2000 and Linux. Find out about the Internet, intranets and extranets, advances in security, the internationalization of TCP/IP, and more.

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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, too--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 and explain, for example, that FTP is a protocol, a service, and an application in complete TCP/IP suites. Dummies books are big on the use of analogies to explain technical subjects; this book uses food and a dinnerware set 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 who have no prior TCP/IP experience. You'll appreciate the background that this book provides if you're planning to configure a small TCP/IP network or work your way toward more elaborate jobs. --David Wall

Topics covered: The TCP/IP stack and its applications, explained in terms that--while not oversimplified--will be understood easily by someone who has little networking knowledge. Fundamentals of networking, client-server communications, TCP/IP protocols (including SMTP, HTTP, POP3, FTP, and various routing protocols), Windows configuration procedures, and name resolution all get attention. A nice section explains IPv6 well.

From the Back Cover

Bonus CD-ROM includes a security bundle and networking tools

TCP/IP jargon explained in plain English!

Updated with coverage of e-commerce and IPv6 If you want to keep up with the ever-changing technology of networking and the Internet, you'll like this friendly guide, which now covers the latest protocols as well as Windows 2000 and Linux. Find out about the Internet, intranets and extranets, advances in security, the internationalization of TCP/IP, and more! all this on the bonus CD-ROM A demo version of VisualRoute to analyze connectivity problems Telnet Server for Windows shareware to turn your client into a server A trial version of Secure CRT for Telnet and rlogin sessions PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT 4 or later; CD-ROM drive (2X or faster). See the CD Appendix for further requirements and details.

Discover how to: Sort through the TCP/IP protocol suite Move around with Mobile-IP Demystify network hardware Use FTP and the Web to share files Secure your networks from snoopers, spammers, and hackers

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About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0764507265
• ISBN 13: 9780764507267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 408