TCP/IP Network Administration

TCP/IP Network Administration, 9781565923225 (1565923227), O'Reilly, 1998

This book is intended for everyone who has a UNIX computer connected to a TCP/IP network. This
obviously includes the network managers and the system administrators who are responsible for setting
up and running computers and networks, but it also includes any user who wants to understand how his
or her computer communicates with other systems. The distinction between a "system administrator" and
an "end user" is a fuzzy one. You may think of yourself as an end user, but if you have a UNIX
workstation on your desk, you're probably also involved in system administration tasks.

The protocol wars are over and TCP/IP won. TCP/IP is now universally recognized as the pre-eminent
communications protocol for linking together diverse computer systems. The importance of interoperable
data communications and global computer networks is no longer debated. But that was not always the
case. When I wrote the first edition of this book, IPX was far and away the leading PC communications
protocol. Microsoft did not bundle communications protocols in their operating system. Corporate
networks were so dependent on SNA that many corporate network administrators had not even heard of
TCP/IP. Even UNIX, the mother of TCP/IP, nursed a large number of pure UUCP networks. Back then I
felt compelled to tout the importance of TCP/IP by pointing out that it was used on thousands of
networks and hundreds of thousands of computers. How times have changed! Today we count the hosts
and users connected to the Internet in the tens of millions. And the Internet is only the tip of the TCP/IP
iceberg. The largest market for TCP/IP is in the corporate "intranet." An intranet is a private TCP/IP
network used to disseminate information within the enterprise. The competing network technologies
have shrunk to niche markets where they fill special needs - while TCP/IP has grown to be the
communications software that links the world.

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