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) |