Part III-10. INTERACTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE UTILITIES AND PROTOCOLS

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

File and message transfer applications include the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), electronic mail (email), and the World Wide Web, which makes file and message transfer the most important category of classic TCP/IP applications. However, those applications do not represent the only ways that TCP/IP internetworks are used. While not as glamorous as some of the application protocols we have examined so far in this section, interactive and administrative protocols are also important and worth understanding.

This final part of the book covers a couple other categories of TCP/IP applications. The first chapter describes interactive and remote application protocols, ...

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