Network Protocol Handbook

The only network protocol reference of its type, this handbook details the most common protocols currently in use by most networked sites. Using a unique one-chapter-per-protocol format, the Handbook covers Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Xerox Network System (XNS), Internet Packet Exchange/Sequence Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX), DECnet Phase IV/Local Area Transport (LAT), IEEE 802.2, and Open Systems Interconnection (OS/GOSIP). Explaining how these protocols operate, the book helps network managers, administrators, and MIS staff/systems analysts fully understand the theories and practicalities for network protocol stacks.

The best-selling book that solves all your network protocol problems. Network managers and administrators are expected to have a working knowledge of all the protocols that have evolved since the early 1980s for LANs, WANs, and the Internet. That's a lot of data to have at your fingertips. But rest easy. It's all covered here, in the popular one-stop reference that's as convenient as it is complete. Users love this handbook because it covers virtually every network protocol in one easy-to-read volume. Better yet, it's been updated and expanded to bring you detailed coverage of: the latest developments in TCP/IP, ISDN, Frame Relay, and PPP; Fiber Data Distributed Interface; Fast Ethernet or 100BaseT; Gigabit Ethernet; Novell NetWare, including NetWare 4.x; WAN protocols, including FR Network Topology. Packed with how-to information, Network Protocols also delivers all the facts on IPv6, Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), as well as Token Ring, AppleTalk, XNS, DECnet, LAT, and other workhorses.

For practical, hands-on information you'll turn to again and again, no other network protocl guide even comes close. Network Protocols in a computing classic, honored with inclusion in The Signature Series because it is quite simply the best reference ever written on the subject--a top-seller among computing references. This Signature Edition brings this excellent work to a wider audience.