Sams Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself...)

Joe Casad, Sams

ISBN:0672312484, Edition: , 1998-12

Price: $19.99

Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours - Table of Contents

Introduction

Tell Us What You Think!

About the Author

Part I—TCP/IP Basics

Hour 1—What Is TCP/IP?

Goals for this Hour

Networks and Protocols

The Development of TCP/IP

The Internet

The Local Area Network (LAN)

TCP/IP Features

Logical Addressing

Routing

Name Resolution

Error Checking and Flow Control

Application Support

Standards Organizations and RFCs

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 2—How TCP/IP Works

Goals for this Hour

The TCP/IP Protocol System

TCP/IP and the OSI Model

Data Packages

A Quick Look at TCP/IP Networking

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Part II—The TCP/IP Protocol System

Hour 3—The Network Access Layer

Goals for this Hour

Protocols and Hardware

The Network Access Layer and the OSI Model

Network Architecture

Physical Addressing

Anatomy of a Frame

LAN Technologies

Ethernet

Token Ring

FDDI

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 4—The Internet Layer

Goals for this Hour

Internet Protocol (IP)

IP Header Fields

IP Addressing

Network ID and Host ID

Working with Octets

Converting a Binary Octet to a Decimal Number

Converting 32-Bit Binary Number to Dotted-Decimal Notation

Converting a Decimal Number to a Binary Octet

Address Classes

Class A

Class B

Class C

Class D

Class E

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 5—Internet Layer: Subnetting

Goals for this Hour

What Is a Subnet?

Benefits of Subnetting

Implementing Subnetting

Conversion Tables

Subnet Masks

Determining Address Validity

Supernetting

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 6—The Transport Layer

Goals for this Hour

Introducing the Transport Layer

Transport Layer Concepts

Connection-oriented and Connectionless Protocols

Ports and Sockets

Multiplexing/Demultiplexing

Introducing TCP and UDP

TCP: The Connection-oriented Transport Protocol

UDP: The Connectionless Transport Protocol

A Note About Firewalls

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 7—TCP and UDP

Goals for this Hour

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

TCP Data Format

TCP Connections

Establishing a Connection

TCP Flow Control

Closing a Connection

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 8—The Application Layer

Goals for this Hour

What Is the Application Layer?

The TCP/IP Application Layer and OSI

Network Services

File and Print Services

Name Resolution Services

Redirectors

Operating Environments and the Application Layer

TCP/IP with NetBIOS

TCP/IP with NetWare

TCP/IP Utilities

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 9—Routers, Brouters, and Bridges

Goals for this Hour

Divided Networks

Bridges

Routers

Brouters

Routing in TCP/IP

What Is a Router?

How Routing Works

Routing Table Concepts

Routing Protocols

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 10—Dial-up TCP/IP

Goals for this Hour

A Look at Modems

Point-to-Point Connections

Modem Protocols

Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP)

What SLIP Does

Characteristics

Point to Point Protocol (PPP)

How PPP Works

PPP Data

PPP Connections

Link Control Protocol (LCP)

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Part III—TCP/IP Utilities

Hour 11—TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities

Goals for this Hour

IPConfig

Ping

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

TraceRoute

Route

Hostname

NetStat

Net Use/View

NBTStat

Network Monitor

Using Connectivity Utilities to Troubleshoot Problems

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 12—TCP/IP File Transfer and Access Utilities

Goals for this Hour

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

Remote Copy (RCP)

Network File System (NFS)

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 13—Remote Access Utilities

Goals for this Hour

Telnet

Berkeley Remote Utilities

Rlogin

Rcp

Rsh

Rexec

Ruptime

Rwho

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 14—TCP/IP Internet Utilities

Goals for this Hour

Web Browsers

Newsreaders

Email Readers

Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

POP3

IMAP4

LDAP

Older Utilities

Archie

Gopher

Pine

Whois

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Part IV—Name Resolution

Hour 15—Host and Domain Name Resolution

Goals for this Hour

Methods for Host and Domain Name Resolution

Host Names

Domain Name System (DNS) Names

Using Hosts Files and DNS

Hosts Files

Using Utilities to Test Host and Domain Name Resolution

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 16—The Domain Name System (DNS)

Goals for this Hour

What Is DNS?

How DNS Works

DNS Management

Implementing DNS

Types of DNS Servers

Zone Files

Testing the Server Implementation

Configuring the Client

The NSLookup Utility

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 17—NetBIOS Name Resolution

Goals for this Hour

What Is NetBIOS?

Methods for NetBIOS Name Resolution

Broadcast-based Name Resolution

LMHosts Files Name Resolution

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) Name Resolution

Testing NetBIOS Name Resolution

Disabling LMHosts or WINS

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Part V—TCP/IP in Network Environments

Hour 18—Using TCP/IP in UNIX and Linux

Goals for this Hour

TCP/IP in UNIX

What Is UNIX?

Configuring TCP/IP

Starting TCP/IP Services

Checking Your TCP/IP Configuration

TCP/IP in Linux

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 19—Using TCP/IP in Windows Operating Systems

Goals for this Hour

When to Use TCP/IP

Manually Installing TCP/IP on Windows NT

Changing Configuration Settings on Windows NT

Advanced IP Addressing Property Sheet

The DNS Property Sheet

The WINS Address Property Sheet

Adding TCP/IP Services to Windows NT Server

Manually Installing TCP/IP on Windows 95/98

Changing Configuration Settings on Windows 95/98

IP Address Property Sheet

Gateway Property Sheet

DNS Configuration Property Sheet

WINS Configuration Property Sheet

Bindings Property Sheet

Advanced Property Sheet

NetBIOS Property Sheet

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 20—Using TCP/IP in Macintosh and NetWare

Goals for this Hour

When to Use TCP/IP

TCP/IP on Macintosh

Configuring TCP/IP on Macintosh

TCP/IP on NetWare

Installing TCP/IP on NetWare

Configuring TCP/IP on NetWare

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Part VI—Advanced Topics

Hour 21—Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Goals for this Hour

What Is DHCP?

How DHCP Works

Relay Agents

Time Fields

Installing DHCP

Configuring DHCP Scopes

Configuring DHCP Options

Scope Options

Global Options

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 22—Network Management Protocols

Goals for this Hour

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

The SNMP Address Space

SNMP Commands

Remote Monitoring

Network Management Consoles

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 23—Recent and Emerging Technologies

Goals for this Hour

IPv6

IPv6 Header Format

IPv6 Addressing

IPv6 with IPv4

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Key Terms

Hour 24—Implementing a TCP/IP Network—Seven Days in the Life of Maurice

Goals for this Hour

A Brief History of Hypothetical, Inc.

Seven Days in the Life of Maurice

Day 1: Getting Started

Day 2: Subnetting

Day 3: Dynamic Addresses

Day 4: Domain Name Resolution

Day 5: NetBIOS Name Resolution

Day 6: Firewalls

Day 7: PPTP

Summary

Q&A