ochsner@hq.af.mil (Russel.A.Ochsner) (10/27/89)
I am very familiar with the physical maintanance of a very large broadband lan, but, I know next to nothing about how data is processed by the various devices on the lan. Such as NIUs, bridges, and gateways... I have heard the software people here speak of TCP-IP. Could someone please give me a good feel for this protocol? What does it mean, where is it used, how does it work??? Tnx, Russ
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (10/28/89)
In article <624@hq.af.mil> ochsner@hq.af.mil (Russel.A.Ochsner) writes:
I have heard the software people here speak of TCP-IP. Could
someone please give me a good feel for this protocol? What does it
mean, where is it used, how does it work???
1) Subscribe to comp.protocols.tcp-ip and listen in for a while.
2) Buy and read the book "Internetworking with TCP/IP - Principles,
Protocols, and Architecture" by Douglas Comer, Prentice-Hall 1988,
ISBN 0-13-470154-2.
Then, you'll know more than about 80% of the people who hold
themselves out as TCP/IP experts :-)