Chapter 1: Designing a TCPIP Network

The TCP/IP protocol suite defines industry standard networking protocols for data networks, including the Internet. Determining the best design and implementation of your TCP/IP network ensures optimal reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance for your enterprise. You can also start to explore the next generation of the Internet layer protocol of the TCP/IP protocol suite — IP version 6 (IPv6) — by introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 IPv6 into part of your IPv4 network.

Related Information

• For more information about IP configuration strategies using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), see "Deploying DHCP" in this book.

• For more information about using Domain Name System (DNS) for name resolution, see "Deploying DNS" in this book.

• For more information about using Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) for name resolution in networks that support clients running Microsoft Windows NT , see "DeployingWINS" in this book.