Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
This a hands-on book about TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) networking.
You can browse it to get an overview of the subject or study a particular section in
detail, but to get maximum benefit, I suggest you set up your own network and try out the
software for real.
Not so long ago, I would have given you a detailed description of a computer network
called the Internet and how it allowed academics to pass information between their computers
using the TCP/IP protocol family. Now the Internet encroaches all aspects of our lives, so
an introduction to it seems totally unnecessary. Yet a hands-on introduction to TCP/IP seems
highly necessary, because the very size of the Internet presents a massive barrier to those wishing
to understand its inner workings.