Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours (4th Edition) - by Joe Casad, 2008, 456 pages. ISBN-10: 0672329964.

I caught this book in sight at Barns and Noble. It is a short book to read, to the point and clear on basic concepts. Short is good.

I. TCP/IP basics

II. TCP/IP Protocol system

2. Correspondence of TCP/IP model and OSI model.
  TCP/IP                      OSI         Relevant protocols
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Application layer           A,P,S          
  Transport layer             T           TCP/UDP
  Internet layer              N           IP, ARP, RARP, ICMP, router(RIP, OSPF etc.)
  Network access layer        D,P         FTS, FDDI, PPP, 802.11, 802.3, 802.16

  note: 802.3 - ethernet, 802.11 - wireless, 802.16 - winmax

3. Network access layer
  - physical addressing.
  - LAN - ethernet.
    CSMA/CS (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect)
    ethernet frame: preamble|dest addr|sr addr|length|data|FCS(CRC)

4. Internet layer
  - IP, IP header
  - IP addressing: class A(8/24), B(16/16), C(24/8), D, E
  - ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
  - RARP (Reverse ARP)
  - ICMP
  - BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), RIP (Routing Information Protocol)

5. Subnetting & CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing)
  - subnet mask/host ID
  - split and combine networks.

6. Transport layer
  - TCP/UDP
  - ports, sockets
  - multiplexing, demultiplexing.
  - TCP: stream, resequencing, flow control, precedence & security, graceful close.

7. Application layer
  - use socket/port to communicate with transport layer.
  - target of multiplexing/de-multiplexing

III. Networking with TCP/IP

8. Routing
  - routing table
  - IP forwarding
  - Dynamic routing algorithm
    - DV (Distance vector). e.g. RIP
    - LS (Link state). e.g. OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
      LS is more popular than DV now.
  - Complex network routing
    1) core router - backbone network (GGP)
    2) exterior router - on border of autonomous systems (EGP: e.g. BGP)
    3) interior router - within autonomous system (IGP: OSPF/RIP)
  - classless routing: CIDR.
  - OSPF: implemented as routed on unix/linux, builds SPT (Shortest Path Tree)

10. Firewall
  - DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
  - rules
  - proxy service
  - reverse proxy

11. Name resolution
  - DNS (Domain Name Server)

IV. TCP/IP utilities.

V. TCP/IP and the internet

18. Email
  - outgoing email: SMTP
  - incoming email: POP3/IMAP

19. Streaming and casting
  - stack:
    RTP
    UDP
    Internet layer
    Network Access layer

VI. Advanced topics