Chapter 3. Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Network Infrastructure

Chapter 3. Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Network Infrastructure

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • TCP/IP version 4

  • TCP/IP version 6

  • Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU)

  • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

  • Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)

  • Incremental zone transfer (IXFR)

  • Full zone transfer (AXFR)

  • Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Installing and configuring DNS, WINS, and DHCP

  • Configuring clients to use Dynamic Update

  • Configuring DHCP scopes and optional parameters

  • Configuring ad analyzing IP addressing requirements

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a connection-oriented, Internet-standard, routable protocol in use on a majority of networks, including the Internet. The protocol suite supports connectivity across a number of dissimilar platforms and supports the main workload of most enterprises today that are designed in a client/server configuration.

Some subtle changes have been incorporated into the TCP/IP suite for Windows Server 2003. Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 3 adds support for source-based filtering and reporting while maintaining backward-compatibility with version 2. You can also use other settings so that systems can be configured to use an alternate, manually configured IP address instead of one that a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server provides. Autoconfiguration of the enabled network interface card (NIC) metric is also available; this feature determines the best routing metric for each interface's default gateway, based on its speed. Support for TCP/IP version 6 has also been added in Windows Server 2003.

These are some of the TCP/IP features that have been carried over from Windows 2000 Server:

  • Binding multiple network adapters with different media types

  • Logical and physical multihoming

  • Internal IP routing

  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) router discovery

  • Ability to configure multiple default gateways

  • TCP/IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

  • Dead gateway detection for TCP traffic

  • Autodiscovery of Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) for TCP connections

  • Data encryption and authentication encryption via Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)

  • Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), which allows clients to assign themselves a random IP address in the 169.254.0.0/16 range via subnet broadcast when they are configured to use DHCP and no server is available

  • Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms that reserve portions of the available bandwidth, allowing it to be prioritized for time-sensitive applications and transmissions

  • Virtual private networks (VPNs)

  • TCP scalable window sizes, including large TCP windows

  • Selective Acknowledgments (SACK)

  • Packet-level filtering

  • NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT)



MCSE 70-293 Exam Cram. Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
MCSE 70-293 Exam Cram: Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0789736195
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 123

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