Welcme To This Internet Exploration

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/InternetProtocol is a comunications protocol developed under contract from the U.S. Deparment of Defence to internetwork dissimilar systems. Some of the protocols provide low level functions needed for many applications. The most important TCP/IP services are: FILE TRANSFER (FTP)which allows a user on any computer to get files from another computer, or to send files to another computer. Security is handled by requiring the user to specify a user name and password for the other computer. You have also got remote login-The network terminal protocol (TELNET) allows a user to log in any other computer on the network. The TCP part of TCP/IP provides transport protocol functions, that ensures the total amount of bytes sent is recieved correctly at the other end. The IP part of TCP/IP provides the routing mechanism. TCP/IP is a routable protocol, which means that the messages transmitted contain the address of a destination network as well as a destination station. This allows TCP/IP messages to be sent to multiple networks within a organization or around the world.