Data transmission: transmission media; local asyncronous communication (RS-232); long distance communication (carriers, and modems). Packet transmission: packets, frames, and error detection; LAN technologies and network topology; hardware addressing and frame type identification; LAN wining, physical topology, and interface hardware; extending LANs: fibre modems, repeaters, bridges, and switches; WAN technologies and routing; network ownership; service paradigm, and performance; protocols and layering. Internetworking: Internetworking: concepts, architecture, and protocols; IP: Internet protocol addressed; binding protocol addresses (ARP); IP Datagrams and Datagrams forwarding; IP encapsulation, fragmentation, and reassembly; the future (IPv6); an error reporting mechanism (ICMP), TCP: reliable transport service. Network applications: client-server interaction; the socket interface; example of a client and a server naming with the Domain Name system; Electronic Mail representation and transfer; file transfer and remote file access; World Wide Web pages and browsing; CGI technology for dynamic Web documents; Java technology for active Web documents; network management (SNMP); network security; initialization (Bootstrapping).Appendices: glossary of networking terms and abbreviations; the ASCII character set; how to use the CD-ROM included with this book.
