[心平气和读经典]The TCP/IP Guide(001)

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The TCP/IP Guide (2005)

Chapter 1 The TCP/IP Guide: Introduction and "Guide to The Guide" | 第1章 概述和导言

Chances are pretty good that even before you started reading this Guide, you had heard of "TCP/IP" -- even if you didn‘t know exactly what it was or even what all those letters stood for. The reason for this is simple: TCP/IP is everywhere! It is today by far the most commonly-used internetworking protocol suite. It has gained prominence in large part due to its role in operating the global Internet, which has in a few short years transformed our society in so many ways. Millions of people use TCP/IP and the Internet without really knowing how they work.  For those in the technology field, however, understanding TCP/IP is becoming more important with each passing year.

好机会呀好机会！即便你从前读过本书也听说过"TCP/IP"，或者你压根就不知道TCP/IP这些单词是神马意思。原因异常简单：TCP/IP无处不在！时至今天，TCP/IP是最为普及的一种网络互联协议套装。它之所以声名远播，得益于它在全球互联网中所担当的角色。而互联网在短短的几年里，在许多方面改变了我们的社会。成千千上万万的人在使用TCP/IP， 在使用互联网，虽然他们并不知道TCP/IP和互联网的工作原理。然而，对那些技术领域的人们来说，理解TCP/IP显得越来越重要了。(P.S. 不懂TCP/IP, 是不是很丢人？！)

As we journey together through this TCP/IP guide, we will explore many hundreds of pages of material that will explain both the generatilies and specifics of TCP/IP in a way that I hope you will find educational and interesting. Before diving into the actual technology, however, I felt that I should provide you with some introductory meterial to help frame the discussions that follow. Thus, I have included this section, to serve as an introduction to this Guide and to provide some information that will help you use it to its full potential.

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I begin with some material that will be of interest to those who want to know the background of The TCP/IP Guide. I provide a general instroduction to the Guide, describing its history, and how it came about. I then describe the goals of this Guide and what I was trying to accomplish in writing it. I also discuss the scrope of the Guide, so you know what it covers and what it does not.

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