Intro to Networking Concepts-Chapter 1
Network protocols – first built in 1950’s for a way to effectively communicate with other computers and protocols are set. These computers can communicate through binary numbers with 0’s and 1’s. Numerous protocols are placed and it eventually evolved into a different term for the online use, this is called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocols/Internet Protocol). TP/IP networks are hierarchical fashion that allows for great flexibility and scalability; by subdividing the networks into smaller groups called subnets. TCP/IP networking are fundamentals of IP network addressing and the distinction between IPv4 and IPv6. Also basic concepts protocols are DHCP, DNS and routing the process of transferring data across a networking from one LAN to another.

TCP/IP networks was first introduced in the 1960’s, these were called IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) was first introduced and is most commonly used in modern networks. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the latest version of the internet protocols and will be prevalence as the number of shortcoming to the IPv4. IPv4 uses 32 bits (four bytes or octets) thus giving a mathematical limit of 2³² possible addresses. As for IPv6 which was developed in the 1990’s that would threaten and even to exhaust the 4-billion-plus IP addresses available through IPv4. At the end, IP6 is the next generation of the TCP/IP protocol.

DNS (Domain Name System) provides the mechanism for connecting a host names with network addresses. DNS plays a key role for the Windows Server 2008 and the public internet. DNS made browsing sites more efficient and very simple to use instead of remembering every network addresses which made it very simplified.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) provides the network for conveniently assigning network addresses and other network