some good links...

so, i've tossed a few ideas back and forth about which way to go with this, and after careful deliberation i've decided to simply provide links to some good tcp / ip info sites because there are already plenty of docs which do a better job of it than i ever could. so, without further adieu...

here's the rfc and a tcp/ip and the handbook. yale's got a pretty good introduction to tcp/ip located here. there's a good doc here that lays out tcp/ip's role in the internet's design and the model it creates. and the onecomputerguy has a great page laying out some basic troubleshooting tactics. also some good information here, here, and here. microsoft has some info about xp's implementation of tcp / ip.

the important thing to remember is that it's tcp over ip. that's what the slash means. and it also means that other protocols can be run over ip. voice over ip (voip) ring a bell? well, okay--voip's not really a protocol in and of itself, but there're a couple of flavours running around that prove my point. in order to connect to the internet, you have to have an ip (or internet protocol) address, but that's by no means the only thing out there...

anyway, more links...

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ip.htm
http://www.itprc.com/tcp_ip.htm
http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm
http://www.protocols.com/pbook/tcpip1.htm
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/535/4.html
good basic tcp/ip faq
http://www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html
interesting tools and docs
http://www.warriorsofthe.net/
yale again
microsoft, again
yarl (yet another resource list)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1180.txt
http://www.linuxjunkies.org/network/tcpip/introa.html
http://www.protocols.com/pbook/tcpip1.htm
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~jain/refs/ipqs_ref.htm
an interesting idea
or just google for it.

there are about a million sources for this (and any other protocols you wanna learn about....) out there for the taking. and plenty of good stuff you can learn in school, too.

--theAdmin