TCP/IP

Sidnie Feit's TCP/IP is a practical guide for anyone who needs to plan, set up, run, maintain or use a TCP/IP network and the services that run on it. It opens with a clear overview of how the technology works and then moves into detailed coverage of applications, along with advice for getting past common performance bottlenecks.

The book concentrates on solutions to problems that occur in real networks. It covers the major recent developments in the field: the new IP security standards, IPv6 as the next generation of the Internet Protocol, multicast groups and multicast routing, and the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). It also addresses TCP extensions for performance and transactional TCP.

Other topics include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and the directory services it is expected to bring, along with the new Secure Domain Name System. Each protocol and application is examined for its security issues. Sample dialogues show the new graphical user interfaces, and readers can work through protocol traces and dialogues themselves.