Product Description

Packed with the latest information on TCP/IP standards and protocols

TCP/IP is a hot topic, because it′s the glue that holds the Internet and the Web together, and network administrators need to stay on top of the latest developments. TCP/IP For Dummies, 6th Edition, is both an introduction to the basics for beginners as well as the perfect go–to resource for TCP/IP veterans.

The book includes the latest on Web protocols and new hardware, plus very timely information on how TCP/IP secures connectivity for blogging, vlogging, photoblogging, and social networking. Step–by–step instructions show you how to install and set up TCP/IP on clients and servers; build security with encryption, authentication, digital certificates, and signatures; handle new voice and mobile technologies, and much more.

• Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the de facto standard transmission medium worldwide for computer–to–computer communications; intranets, private internets, and the Internet are all built on TCP/IP
• The book shows you how to install and configure TCP/IP and its applications on clients and servers; explains intranets, extranets, and virtual private networks (VPNs); provides step–by–step information on building and enforcing security; and covers all the newest protocols
• You′ll learn how to use encryption, authentication, digital certificates, and signatures to set up a secure Internet credit card transaction

Find practical security tips, a Quick Start Security Guide, and still more in this practical guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117074 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 456 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)

From the Author
read this for beginners use of tcp/ip
i recommend this book to anyone who has a tcp/ip connection and wishes to learn what they can do with it beside access the internet

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