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Configure and troubleshoot the
TCP/IP protocol.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
A networking protocol that allows computers to
communicate across interconnected networks and
the Internet. Every computer on the Internet
supports TCP/IP.
Transmission Control Protocol, A
connection based Internet protocol responsible
for breaking data into packets, which the IP
protocol sends over the network.
IP is located at the TCP/IP Internet layer which
corresponds to the network layer of the OSI
Model. IP is responsible for routing packets by
their IP address.
IP is a connectionless protocol. which
means, IP does not establish a connection
between source and destination before
transmitting data, thus packet delivery is not
guaranteed by IP. Instead, this must be provided
by TCP. TCP is a connection based protocol and,
is designed to guarantee delivery by monitoring
the connection between source and destination
before data is transmitted. TCP places packets
in sequential order and requires acknowledgment
from the receiving node that they arrived
properly before any new data is sent.
Microsoft TCP/IP provides the following
benefits:
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Support for Internet connectivity and the
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).
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Connectivity across interconnected networks
with different operating systems and
hardware platforms, including communication
with many non-Microsoft systems, such as
Internet hosts, Apple Macintosh systems, IBM
mainframes, UNIX systems, and Open VMS
systems.
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Support for automatic TCP/IP configuration
using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) servers such as Windows 2000 servers.
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Support for automatic IP-address-to-NetBIOS
computer name resolution using Windows NT
Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
servers.
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Support for Windows Sockets 1.1 and 2.0,
which are used by many client/server
applications and many public-domain Internet
tools.
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Support for the NetBIOS interface, commonly
known as NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
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Support for many commonly used utilities,
which are installed with the protocol.
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