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Sixth Edition

Joe Casad

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Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33789-5

ISBN-10: 0-672-33789-4

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016920083

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Editor-in-Chief

Greg Wiegand

Executive Editor

Laura Lewin

Development Editor

Michael Thurston

Managing Editor

Sandra Schroeder

Project Editor

Mandie Frank

Copy Editor

Abigail Bass

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Proofreader

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Technical Editors

Ronald McFarland

Jon Snader

Eric Spielman

Editorial Assistant

Olivia Basegio

Designer

Chuti Prasertsith

Compositor

codeMantra

Joe Casad is an engineer, author, and editor who has written widely on computer networking and system administration. He has written or cowritten 12 books on computers and networking. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of Linux Pro Magazine and ADMIN Magazine. In a past life, he was the editor-in-chief of C/C++ Users Journal and the technical editor of Sysadmin Magazine.

For Susan

Thanks to Laura Lewin, Olivia Basegio, Michael Thurston, Ronald McFarland, Jon Snader, Eric Spielman, Mandie Frank, Dhaya Karunanidhi, and Abby Manheim for their help with envisioning and creating this book. I also want to acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions to previous editions of Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours: Bob Willsey, Sudha Putnam, Walter Glenn, Art Hammond, Jane Brownlow, Jeff Koch, Mark Renfrow, Vicki Harding, Mark Cierzniak, Marc Charney, Jenny Watson, Betsy Harris, and Trina MacDonald. Thanks to Xander, Mattie, and Bridget for staying close in the storms and not wandering too far away in the sunshine. Thanks to my life partner Susan Rieger for venturing through canyons and over mountaintops with a guy whos still working on reading the map. And thanks with fond gratitude to the production department for bringing form and elegance to an inglorious collection of cryptic pencil sketches.

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