Preface

You are probably wondering whether to refer to this book to understand more about TCP/IP or to read some other good books describing similar topics and containing the word TCP/IP in their titles. Let us explain to you what moved us to write another publication about the TCP/IP protocols on which the Internet is based.

Publications about the Internet are usually of two types:

  • Publications involved with concrete operating systems (Microsoft Windows, UNIX, CISCO, etc.). The goal of such publications is to train readers in a particular TCP/IP implementation, while describing the main TCP/IP principles is only their secondary goal.
  • Publications written for the academic environment. Even if their main goal is to describe the basic TCP/IP principles, ...

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