Special Edition Using TCP/IP

Special Edition Using TCP/IP, 2E is the practical guide to applications of TCP/IP, including utilities for operation, troubleshooting, and management, with insight into future applications such as Voice over IP and VPNs. It includes current TCP/IP draft standards and future work planned. Clear illustrations of practical utilities enable the reader to understand both the technology and applications together from a single source. It includes current scaling problems in the Internet like addressing and routing. Both short-term solutions and long-term solutions for these problems are discussed.

Ramadas Shanmugam brings with him a rich experience of training and instructional design. He is a computer science student and is passionate about computers and writing. Ramadas is currently working as an instructional designer at NIIT where he designs and authors books on a wide range of subjects. He has co-authored books and instructional training material on Lotus Notes, Windows NT, Mozilla Open Source Browser Programming, and Microsoft Visio. Ramadas is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.

Padmini.R, a graduate in computer science, has been involved in training technical courses on a wide variety of subjects thus gaining extensive exposure in training and instructional design. She has designed and created instructional training material for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server certification exams, Microsoft Office, and Java Servlets programming.

Nivedita.S, a postgraduate in biochemistry, loves to learn and believes that teaching is the best way to learn. She has designed and developed training material on topics such as StarOffice Suite, FrontPage 2000, and Visual Basic. She has also edited books on C#, Wireless LANs, and Storage Area Networks.