TCP / IP Suite
Prabhaker Mateti · The Internet Encyclopedia · 2004
Abstract The Internet and the World Wide Web are based on TCP/IP. The term ”TCP/IP” refers to not only the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol), but also includes other protocols, applications, and even the network medium. These protocols include UDP, ARP, and ICMP. These applications include telnet, FTP, Secure Shell, NFS, Web browsers and servers, and the many items collectively called the Web services. This chapter is an encyclopedic survey of these topics starting from the seven‐layer OSI model to recent developments that improve security and privacy such as IPv6, improvements in the implementations of the protocol stack, and firewalls.