Product Description

TCP/IP is always a hot topic because it is and always will be the glue that holds the Internet and the World Wide Web together. To be well connected (network–wise, that is), sooner or later you have to become familiar with TCP/IP. So if you want to understand what it is, what it does, what it’s for, why you need it, and what to do with it, but you just don’t know where to start – this book is for you. If you have to install and set up TCP/IP on your computer at home or on lots of computers for your company, you′ll find lots of Hands–On sections that take you through the process step by step.

TCP/IP For Dummies, 5th Edition, is both an introduction to the basics and a reference to help you use TCP/IP applications and tools on all kinds of computers connected to networks. Here are some of the many subjects that this book covers:

• Uncovering the relationships among TCP/IP, the Net, and the Web
• Exploring client/server and how it is the foundation of TCP/IP
• Installing and configuring TCP/IP and its applications on clients and servers
• Understanding intranets, extranets, and virtual private networks (VPNs)
• Building and enforcing security
• Boldly going to the next generation: IPv6

If you’re concerned about the security of your data – and who isn’t? – don’t miss the practical security tips in this book, including a Quick Start Security Guide. You can read about advanced security topics, including the security protocols that are part of TCP/IP. You also find out how to use encryption, authentication, digital certificates, and signatures. And if you’re interested in e–commerce, walk through a secure Internet credit card transaction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #300722 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
TCP/IP for Dummies aims to decode the protocols and executables that underlie the Internet and other networks that comply with its data communications standards. By combining how-to information that explains how to configure TCP/IP networking on various Microsoft Windows systems (including Windows 2000) with plenty of academic material on how Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) work, the authors deliver considerable value to their readers. There ought to be TCP/IP configuration coverage of Linux and Mac OS--TCP/IP is, after all, ideal for heterogeneous networking--but the detailed information about the stack's workings offsets the hands-on shortcomings.

The authors spend a bit too long explaining elementary stuff about the Internet. Still, they unravel Internet phenomena very clearly, explaining for example that FTP is a protocol, a service, and an application in complete TCP/IP suites. Dummies books are big on using analogies to explain technical subjects; this book uses food and a set of dinnerware as an analogy for the TCP/IP software, and sometimes distracts from its educational objective by struggling to make the comparison fit. Regardless, the authors succeed in explaining an important and complex set of internetworking technologies to readers with no prior TCP/IP experience. You'll appreciate the background this book provides if you are planning to configure a small TCP/IP network or work your way toward more elaborate jobs. --David Wall

Review
“…a definitive learners’ guide, an amusing one…a great starter kit…” (IT Training, June 2003)

Review
“…a definitive learners’ guide, an amusing one…a great starter kit…” (IT Training, June 2003)

Customer Reviews

Ok, but far too much humour to make any sense...
I picked up this book in the hope of grasping TCP/IP. What a mistake.
I bought the book, and int he time Ive being trying to understand it, IVe read TCP/IP Unleashed by SAMS, and Networking for Dummies. Its simply trying far too hard to be funny, which throws you off the scent totally, and for many i would see could get totally confused and think there is actually a 4.5 lemon flavoured cream filling section of the OSI model! Theres humour simply when theres no need, which is the main problem. Humours fine when done well, but done this badly and in the wrong places it doesnt help at all. Buy TCP/IP unleashed, its gets stright to the point, and whilst looks daunting, it will save you a lot of time. I simply cannot complete this book!

Too Simplistic.
Found the book far too simplistic, and boring, much of the first half of the book seems to be just filling up space, and not really relevent to the information that I required, the same information could probably have been broken down to fill a couple of pages, and still made as much sense.

Good introduction to TCP/IP but too basic
If you know absolutely nothing about TCP/IP this book offers a good introduction to the subject. It skims the surface of all the major protocols within the suite and looks at IPv6. However decimal to binary conversion, subnetting and supernetting are not covered in sufficient depth. Neither is routing, WINS nor the OSI model. It's a good introduction, but biased towards UNIX, and not suitable for preparation for MCSE or CNE