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DHCP Servers ...............................................................................63
Broadcast Storms..........................................................................65
Segmenting Broadcast Domains ...............................................66
Eliminating Broadcast Storms..................................................66
IP Addressing and Subnetting .....................................................67
Definitions ..................................................................................67
IP Addresses...............................................................................68
Address Classes..........................................................................70
Subnet Masking .........................................................................72
Calculating the Number of Subnets and Nodes.......................73
Classless InterDomain Routing - CIDR...................................74
Internet Protocols .........................................................................77
Protocol Layering .......................................................................77
Layer 1........................................................................................80
Layer 2........................................................................................80
Layer 3........................................................................................81
Layer 4........................................................................................81
Layer 7........................................................................................82
TCP/IP ........................................................................................82
Packet Headers .............................................................................84
TCP Level ...................................................................................84
IP Level.......................................................................................86
Ethernet Level ...........................................................................87
Well-Known Sockets and the Application Layer .....................89
UDP and ICMP ..........................................................................90
The Domain Name System...........................................................92
Mapping Domain Names to Addresses.....................................92
Domain Name Resolution..........................................................93
IP Routing .....................................................................................93
Packet Fragmentation and Reassembly ...................................95
ARP .............................................................................................95
Multicasting ..................................................................................96
Multicast Groups........................................................................96
Multicast Addressing .................................................................97
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) ........................99
IGMP Versions 1 and 2..............................................................99
Multicast Routing Algorithms....................................................102
Flooding ....................................................................................102
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