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Section 1.8. Summary

In this chapter we discussed the structure of TCP/IP, the protocol suite upon which the Internet is built. We have seen that TCP/IP is a hierarchy of four layers: Applications, Transport, Internet, and Network Access. We have examined the function of each of these layers. In the next chapter we look at how the IP datagram moves through a network when data is delivered between hosts.



    		Chapter 1. Overview of TCP/IP
    		Section 1.1. TCP/IP and the Internet
    		Section 1.2. A Data Communications Model
    		Section 1.3. TCP/IP Protocol Architecture
    		Section 1.4. Network Access Layer
    		Section 1.5. Internet Layer
    		Section 1.6. Transport Layer
    		Section 1.7. Application Layer
    		Section 1.8. Summary
    		Chapter 2. Delivering the Data
    		Chapter 3. Network Services
    		Chapter 4. Getting Started
    		Chapter 5. Basic Configuration
    		Chapter 6. Configuring the Interface
    		Chapter 7. Configuring Routing
    		Chapter 8. Configuring DNS
    		Chapter 9. Local Network Services
    		Chapter 10. sendmail
    		Chapter 11. Configuring Apache
    		Chapter 12. Network Security
    		Chapter 13. Troubleshooting TCP/IP
    		Appendix A. PPP Tools
    		Appendix B. A gated Reference
    		Appendix C. A named Reference
    		Appendix D. A dhcpd Reference
    		Appendix E. A sendmail Reference
    		Appendix F. Solaris httpd.conf File
    		Appendix G. RFC Excerpts