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Understanding TCP/IP
Although TCP/IP is the acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, you may find a number of folks who claim it really stands for Terribly Confusing Proposition/Irritating and Perplexing. I say pay them no mind. They’re just a little cranky because they haven’t yet found a simple, straightforward explanation of TCP/IP. To ensure that you don’t join their ranks, let me quickly explain TCP/IP. Think about the fact that you can send a letter to someone in Paris, London, Tokyo, or Sydney and be reasonably sure that he or she will get it (as long as you address the letter properly). That’s a pretty amazing feat when you realize that each country has its own language, its own customs, and its own unique postal system. The reason your letter makes it to its destination is because of the existence of a standardized set of rules for the manner in which mail is transmitted. That, in a nutshell, defines TCP/IP — a set of standardized rules for transmitting information. In the case of TCP/IP, the information is in electronic rather than paper form. TCP/IP enables computers to communicate with one another by using each computer’s address, which is called an IP address. E-mail, Web pages, files, and other data are transmitted over the Internet in packets, which are nothing more than small electronic parcels of information. The computer doing the transmitting takes a large amount of information and breaks it into small, manageable individual packets to send it across the Internet. The receiving computer collects each of the packets and puts them back together to reconstitute the original piece of information. Both computers follow the rules built into TCP/IP to know how to break up and reconstitute the data. While it’s possible to share a modem connection on a Windows 2000 computer, I’m not going to cover it here. It’s rarely necessary to perform this task on a home network. First of all, most Windows 2000 computers on a home network are laptops (“borrowed” from employers), and laptops wouldn’t be host computers. Second, sharing a connection on a Windows 2000 computer is quite complicated because everything has to be configured manually (on both the host and the clients). If you need to use a Windows 2000 computer as an Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) host. |
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