Microsoft windows 2000 TCP/IP protocols and services : technical reference / Thomas Lee & Joseph Davies.

Contents;

PART I: The Network Interface Layer

1: Local Area Network (LAN) Technology
LAN encapsulations
Token ring
FDDI

2: Wide Area Network (WAN) Technologies
WAN encapsulations
Point - to- Point encapsulation
X.25
Frame relay
ATM

3: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Overview of ARP
ARP frame structure
Gratuitous ARP and duplicate IP address detection
Inverse ARP (InARP)
etc


PART II: Internet Layer Protocols

4: Internet Protocol (IP) Basics
Introduction to IP
The IP datagram
The IP header
Fragmentation
IP options
etc

5: Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing

Types of IP addresses
Expressing IP addresses
Unicast IP addresses
IP broadcast addresses
IP multicase addresses
etc

6: Internet Protocol (IP) Routing

Introduction to IP routing
Types of links
The IP routing table
The Microsoft windows 2000 IP routing table
IP routing from sending host to destination
etc

7: Internet Control Message Protocol ( ICMP)

ICMP message structure
ICMP messages
Ping utility
TRACERT utility
PATHPING utility
etc

8: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

Introduction to IP Multicast and IGMP
IGMP message structure
Microsoft windows 2000 and IGMP
etc

9.: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6)

Introduction to IPv6
Addressing
IPv6 header format and routing mechanisms
Transition mechanism
etc

PART III: Transport Layer Protocols

10.Introduction to User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
The UDP message
The UDP header
UDP ports

11: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Basics
Introduction to TCP
The TCP segment
The TCP header
TCP ports
TCP flags
etc

12: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Connections

The TCP connection
TCP connection establishment
TCP half- open connections
TCP connection maintenance
TCP connection termination
etc

13: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Data Flow

Basic TCP data flow behavior
TCP acknowledgments
TCP sliding windows
Small segments
Sender- Side flow control

14: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Retransmission and Timeout

Retransmission time-out and round -trip time
Retransmission behavior
Calculating the RTO
Karn's algorithm
Fast retransmit


PART IV: Application Layer Protocols and Services

15. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)Service

Overview to DHCP in Windows 2000
DHCP messages
DHCP options

16: Domain Name Services (DNS)

Overview to DNS in Microsoft Windows 2000
How DNS works
DNS resource records
DNS messages


17: Windows Internet Name Services (WINS)

Overview of WINS in windows 2000
How WINS works
NetBIOS name service messages


18: File and Printer Sharing

Introduction to internet printing
Introduction to CIFS

19: Internet Information Server (IIS) and the Internet Protocol

HTTP
FTP
SMTP


20: Securing IP Communications with IP Security (IPSec)

IPSec overview
How to IPSec works
Authentication header (AH) details
Encapsulating security payload (ESP) details

21: Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Overview of virtual private networks
What is a VPN
Introduction to Point -to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
Introduction to Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol ( L2TP)

Includes bibliographical references : p. 511-513 . _ Index : p.515-537