The author makes it clear from the very beginning the book intention as "to provide the reader with a meaty, yet concise, description of all the major protocols of a TCP/IP-based network", its co-ordinates: "to provide a single, handy technical guide to all the major Internet protocols at a level required by students and data communication analysts"; "to provide anorganized description of the TCP/IP protocol suite, with many illustrations, which is suitable for training", and its intended readership . He accounts for why understanding the TCP/IP protocol is necessary (it "is the most widely used in the world of internetworking LANs and will remain popular through at least the end of this decade").
by Floyd Wilder
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