Practical TCP IP: Designing, Using, and Troubleshooting TCP IP...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 880 pages
• Published by: Addison-Wesley Professional January 30, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0201750783
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0201750782
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Weighs: 3.5 pounds

Book Info
Unique features include: a focus on how to diagnose problems and how to fix them; illustrations on every page, five chapters on how Windows operates on a TCP/IP network, and Web response codes. An invaluable reference for everyday use. Softcover.

Back Cover Copy


Practical TCP/IP is the only book you need to ensure that your networks work. With this book you learn by doing as well as reading. Split into 4 Parts, this book has a unique modular approach that facilitates in-depth and easy learning. The detailed appendices make this a desktop book you cannot be without.

Based on years of practical experience this hands-on book explains the principles of networking, and the TCP/IP protocols in depth. Covering both Linux and Windows, Practical TCP/IP is applicable to just about any network.

Skills you will learn

• Tells you how to build a network
• Starts with a simple two-machine network and goes onto a full network connected to the Internet with a firewall and internal routers, and DNS and e-mail servers.
• Explains the software tools you need to diagnose problems and to understand how your network is operating
• Explains why you would want to do things as well as how to do them
• Includes practical troubleshooting and diagnostic techniques that you can apply just about everywhere so you can solve problems in your own network and in systems configured by others
• Assumes that things may go wrong rather than work first time. So error messages are explained and solutions to problems found.
• Ties together the various networking components so that the network is viewed as a whole not just disjointed pieces.

After reading this book you end up with a working network, you understand what is happening at a detailed level, the ability to diagnose and fix problems, and to identify bugs in the software you are using.

This book appeals to both beginners and experienced TCP/IP practitioners.

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Reader Reviews
As the author mentions in his preface, Richard W. Stevens (may his soul rest in peace -- I was so looking forward to his third volume of Unix Network programming) TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1 is a little outdated in these days. This book fills in the practical details using real-world examples. The concentration is on Linux and Windows NT. It would have been nice if the book used Windows 2000 but almost everything mentioned for NT applies to that OS too. Starting with a small network of two machines and various traces from tcpdump/ethereal/Windows Network monitor, the author explains all the TCP/IP protocols. The discussion is to the point with no header details. For such details he refers you to Stevens. Given this the title is most appropriate. The trick he uses to make us understand active and passive mode ftp transfers (using two telnet sessions for passive mode and one telnet/one netcat session for active mode) is the best I have seen so far ! Highly recommend this. Worth every penny (pence ?!).