This is a 559 page, 4.6MB eBook in Adobe Acrobat PDF format and a completely free download rich in information.
This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite, how the most important protocols function, and their basic configuration in the Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 families of operating systems. This book is primarily a discussion of concepts and principles to lay a conceptual foundation for the TCP/IP protocol suite and provides an integrated discussion of both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
There’s nothing ‘fundamental’ about this book; there’s lots of very in-depth information on the new networking stack capabilities in Vista/WS08 and a great resource to have available.
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