TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview

I. ARCHITECTURE AND CORE PROTOCOLS. 1. Introduction to TCP/IP - History, Architecture and Standards. Internet History - Where It All Came From. TCP/IP Architectural Model - What It Is All About. Finding Standards for TCP/IP and the Internet. Future of the Internet. IBM and the Internet. 2. Internetworking and Transport Layer Protocols. Internet Protocol (IP). Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP). Ports and Sockets. User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). References. 3. Routing Protocols Basic IP Routing. Routing Algorithms. Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP). Exterior Routing Protocols. References. 4. Application Protocols. Characteristics of Applications. Domain Name System (DNS). TELNET. File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Remote Execution Command Protocol (REXEC and RSH). Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). Post Office Protocol (POP). Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4 (IMAP4). Network Management. Remote Printing (LPR and LPD). Network File System (NFS). X Window System. Finger Protocol. NETSTAT. Network Information System (NIS). NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). II. SPECIAL PURPOSE PROTOCOLS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. 5. TCP/IP Security Overview. Security Exposures and Solutions. A Short Introduction to Cryptography. Firewalls. Network Address Translation (NAT). The IP Security Architecture (IPSec). SOCKS. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Transport Layer Security (TLS). Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S-MIME). Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Overview. Kerberos Authentication and Authorization System. Remote Access Authentication Protocols. Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). Secure Electronic Transactions (SET). References. 6. IP Version 6. IPv6 Overview. The IPv6 Header Format. Internet Control Message Protocol Version 6 (ICMPv6). DNS in IPv6. DHCP in IPv6. Mobility Support in IPv6. Internet Transition - Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6. The Drive Towards IPv6. References. 7. Dynamic IP, Mobile IP and Network Computers Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP). Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). Dynamic Domain Name System. Mobile IP. IP Masquerading. The Network Computer. References. 8. Internet Protocols and Applications. The World Wide Web (WWW). Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The Extensible Markup Language (XML). Java. Accessing Legacy Applications from the Web. Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Gopher. Internet2. References. 9. Multicast and Multimedia. Multicasting. Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP). Multicast Routing Protocols. The Multicast Backbone. The Real-Time Protocols RTP and RTCP. Voice over IP. References. 10. Quality of Service. Why QoS?. Integrated Services. Differentiated Services. References. 11. Availability, Scalability and Load Balancing. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). Round-Robin DNS. IBM eNetwork Dispatcher. Alternative Solutions to Load Balancing. Encapsulation. HTTP Redirection. TCP/IP for OS/390 Using Workload Manager (WLM). OSPF Equal-Cost Multipath. OS/390 VIPA Connection Recovery. 12. Directory Protocols and Distributed Computing. Introduction to the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The Andrew File System (AFS). Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). III. CONNECTION PROTOCOLS AND PLATFORM IMPLEMENTATIONS. 13. Connection Protocols. Ethernet and IEEE 802.x Local Area Networks (LANs).Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI). Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Data Link Switching: Switch-to-Switch Protocol. Serial Line IP (SLIP). Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). TCP/IP and X.25. Frame Relay. PPP over SONET and SDH Circuits. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Enterprise Extender. Multiprotocol Transport Network (MPTN). Multi-Path Channel+ (MPC+). S/390 Open Systems Adapter 2. Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA). Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI). References. 14. Platform Implementations. Software Operating System Implementations. IBM Hardware Platform Implementations. Appendix A: Special Notices. Appendix B: Related Publications. List of Abbreviations. Index.