BC 0055 TCPIP Protocol Suite

Contents Unit 1 Architecture of TCP / IP Unit 2 Network Interfaces Unit 3 Internetworking Protocols Unit 4 Transport Protocols Unit 5 Domain Name System Unit 6 Remote Execution Unit 7 FTP and TFTP Unit 8 Mail Applications Unit 9 The Web Unit 10 Network Management 224 206 182 125 150 159 94 1 13 43

Department: Information Technology Program: BCA-New Prof. V.B Nanda Gopal Director & Dean Directorate of Distance Education Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical & Technological Sciences

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Program (s) : BCA Subject (s) : TCP/IP Protocol Suite Subject Code (s) : BC 0055

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SUBJECT INTRODUCTION
Today, the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are well known terms for millions of people all over the world. Many people depend on applications enabled by the internet, such as electronic mail and web access. In addition, the increase in popularity of business applications places additional emphasis on the internet. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite is the engine for the Internet and networks worldwide. Its simplicity and power has leads it to becoming the single network protocol of choice in the world today. The whole book discusses TCP/IP suits and is divided into 10 units. Unit 1: Architecture of TCP / IP This unit speaks about The Internet standard Process, Request for Comments, TCP/IP terminology, and different layers of TCP/IP Protocol Suite. Unit 2 : Network Interfaces This unit speaks about the Ethernet : IEEE 802 LANs, Fiber Distributed data Interface, Serial Line IP, Point-to-Point Protocol, Integrated services Digital Networks (ISDN), X.25, Frame Relay, SONET and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Unit 3: Internetworking Protocols This unit speaks about Internet Protocol, Internet control Message Protocol, Internet Group Management Protocol, Address Resolution Protocol, Reverse Address resolution Protocol, Bootstrap Protocol and Dynamic host configuration Protocol. Unit 4: Transport protocols This unit speaks about Ports and Sockets, User Datagram Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol and TCP Congestion Control Algorithms.

Unit 5: Domain Name System This unit speaks about Hierarchical namespace, Fully Qualified Names, Mapping domain names to IP Addresses and vice versa. In addition to this we also discuss about the distributed Name Space, Domain Name Resolution, Domain Name Server Operation, Domain Name system Resource Records and Messages. Unit 6: Remote Execution This unit speaks about Telnet, its Operation, Command structure and Basic Telnet Commands and then about Remote Execution Command Protocol (REXEC and RSH). Unit 7: FTP and TFTP This unit speaks about File Transfer Protocol, its operations and Trivial File Transfer Protocol. Unit 8: Mail Applications This unit speaks about Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), How it works, its Header Format, its mail Transaction Flow, Post Office Protocol and about Internet Message access Protocol. Unit 9: The Web This unit speaks about web browsers, web servers, and about Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Unit 10: Network Management This unit speaks about The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), SNMP agent, SNMP Manager, SNMP Subagent, SNMP Model SNMP Traps, SNMP Versions, Single Authentication and privacy Protocol and about the NETSTAT Utilities.