TCP/IP Management

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Sarah Miller Extra Credit Chapter 9 TCP/IP Management TCP/IP internets require continuous regulating and provisioning. With this in mind, it takes a great amount of competence and management effort to effectively and efficiently run TCP/IP. TCP/IP is a collection of protocols and tools used for communicating over a network. TCP/IP is also the main protocol used for internetwork communications. While TCP/IP is quite complicated, it is the most versatile protocol around. Some commonly used notions that surround TCP/IP management is that generally with TCP/IP, a client-server mode of operation is used. To run the TCP/IP server software, a gateway is used. A controlling host will run the client software. Also, an authentication method is needed to access to the server. To keep status reports, a management information base is used (Adnet, 44). IP Subnet Planning An organization has 32 bits for their IP addresses. While the network part is assigned and unchangeable, an organization can decide what to do with the rest of the address. One option that an organization can choose is to subnet its IP address space, which means the remaining bits are divided into a subnet part and a host part. When figuring out how many possibilities one has for their subnet, they can use the equation 2N. However, it is important to remember that a network, subnet, or host can’t be all 0s or 1s. With this in mind, an organization can have 2N-2 networks, subnets, or hosts. When it comes to creating one’s IP address, one realizes that the larger the subnet part is, the more subnets an organization can have. Yet, the larger the subnet part is, the smaller the host part will be. Therefore there will be less hosts per subnet. This means that if one wants more... ... middle of paper ... ...t, a second-level domain name is worthless unless the organization buys or rents a webserver, builds a website, and then pays for an ISP to connect the website to the Internet. DHCP Servers A DHCP server is in charge of assigning IP addresses and other configuration information to a client PC. This allows for the PC to boot up with all its current configuration information. With the way this system works, every time the client PC boots up, it will have a different IP address. This is different from servers, which receive static IP addresses that allows them to have the same IP address every time. Having a static IP address allows for clients to find the servers. A DHCP server responds to a client PC when the PC broadcasts a dynamic host configuration protocol message to all of the nearby hosts. The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) IPv6 Management

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