Containing practical advice, this book offers details for planning, installing, using, operating and maintaining a TCP/IP network and its associated services. It describes all the services and protocols related to the TCP/IP product family and explains the media and network configurations across which it runs. Information is mixed with guidelines for performing terminal access, file transfer, E-mail and data exchange operations, invoking network services such as the network file services, network information service, and domain name server, implementing and using the Simple Network Management Protocol, troubleshooting potential network problems, and so on. Many examples of real terminal sessions are given to lead network planners and administrators, systems analysts, DP managers, and users through the administration and use of a TCP/IP system. In addition, the differences between TCP/IP and the OSI protocol suite are compared and migration issues are explored.