A Dictionary of Computing or Network Analysis and Troubleshooting

A Dictionary of Computing

Author: John Daintith

In the quickly changing world of computing, staying current is essential. The Dictionary of Computing has been fully revised by a team of computer specialists, making it the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to computing on the market today. With expanded coverage of networking and databases, addition of biographical entries, and feature spreads on key topics, e.g. XML, it is a comprehensive reference work containing over 6,500 entries that is as useful for home and office users as it is indispensable for students of computing. New recommended web links for many entries, via the Dictionary of Computing companion website, provide valuable further information and updates. The Dictionary offers wide coverage of computer terms in industry, school, work, education, and the home, including the Internet, multimedia, networks and databases, and security. Terms are defined in a clear and concise manner with helpful examples where relevant. This dictionary is suitable for anyone who uses computers, and is an ideal not only for students of computing but for those studying the related fields of IT, mathematics, physics, media communications, electronic engineering, and natural sciences.

Table of Contents:

Credits     vi
Preface     vii
Guide to the Dictionary     viii
A Dictionary of Computing     1
Computer Graphics (Feature)     100
The Anatomy of an Internet Address (Feature)     260
Object-oriented Programming (Feature)     350
Quantum Computing (Feature)     416
SQL (Feature)     484
XML (Feature)     564
Appendices
Generic Domain Names     573
Country-Code Domain Names     574
File Extensions     577
Character Set     580
Greek Alphabet     581
Chronology     582
Useful Web Sites     584

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Network Analysis and Troubleshooting

Author: J Scott Scott Haugdahl

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest protocol information and troubleshooting strategies to help you keep your network running at peak performance. Network Analysis and Troubleshooting features proven network analysis techniques and experience-based strategies for isolating and solving network problems. This useful guide cuts to the chase by focusing on the most pertinent protocol packet formats you need to know to troubleshoot and optimize networks.

Network Analysis and Troubleshooting uses a proven "bottom-up" troubleshooting methodology that examines in detail each network layer—physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application—revealing the problems and solutions specific to each layer. This book also discusses the role of the protocol analyzer to measure and baseline throughput and latency, identify bottlenecks, and determine server and client response times. Numerous practical tips, diagrams, case studies, and trace file snapshots illustrate important concepts and techniques.

You will find essential information on such topics as:

• Wiring and cable testing issues
• Transmission encoding techniques
• Dissecting the IEEE 48-bit MAC address
• The impact of different types of broadcast traffic
• Operational details and analysis considerations for switches
• Ethernet and Token Ring operational details and analysis
• The IEEE 802.2 LLC protocol (explored in full)
• Datagrams and routing
• IP specifics, including addressing, subnets, and the role of ICMP
• IPX operation and analysis
• UDP, TCP, SPX, and SPX II protocol analysis
• How different protocols find resources via NetBIOS, SAP, and DNS
• Logon sequencing for various protocol stacks
• DHCP, SMB, NCP, NFS, FTP, HTTP, and NT Browse protocol analysis and troubleshooting
• Baselining throughput and latency, including understanding the "latency wedge"

The CD-ROM provides Request for Comments (RFCs) in both hypertext and original formats, Internet Drafts, a computing and networking dictionary, Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUIs, also known as network adapter vendor IDs), an IP Subnet Calculator, a protocol encapsulation chart, and more. The CD-ROM also includes a full-text search engine for all of the CD contents, including the RFCs.

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Haugdahl's company provides resources for network analysis. Here he offers protocol information and troubleshooting strategies to help administrators keep networks running at peak performance. He has a bottom-up methodology that examines in detail each network layer<-- >physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application<-->to reveal problems and solutions specific to each layer. The CD-ROM contains Internet standards documents, selected shareware and freeware, a dictionary, and other tools. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)