What Is New in This Edition

This book is an update of Microsoft^® Windows^® Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference by Joseph Davies and Thomas Lee. The changes and updates are the following:

• Chapter 2: Wide Area Network (WAN) Technologies Coverage of the Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), X.25, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has been removed

• Chapter 3: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Includes coverage of new duplicate address detection and neighbor unreachability detection behavior in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista

• Chapter 4: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Coverage of the Shiva Password Authentication Protocol (SPAP), Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP) (also known as MS-CHAP v1), and Extensible Authentication Protocol-Message Digest 5 (EAP-MD5) authentication protocols has been removed and coverage of the Protected EAP (PEAP) authentication protocol has been added

• Chapter 5: Internet Protocol (IP) Now includes a discussion of the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) field in the IP Type of Service (TOS) field defined in RFC 3168

• Chapter 10 (formerly Chapter 12): Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Basics Now includes a discussion of the ECN flags in the TCP header defined in RFC 3168

• Chapter 12 (formerly Chapter 14): Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Data Flow Now includes discussion of receive window auto-tuning, compound TCP, ECN, and limited transmit

• Chapter 13 (formerly Chapter 15): Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Retransmission and Time-Out Now includes discussion of the new dead gateway detection algorithm, Forward RTO-Recovery, and new loss recovery methods

• Chapter 14 (formerly Chapter 16): Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Restructured and rewritten to focus on DHCP protocol details and message exchanges

• Chapter 15 (formerly Chapter 17): Domain Name System (DNS) Restructured and rewritten to focus on DNS protocol details and message exchanges

• Chapter 16 (formerly Chapter 18): Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) Restructured and rewritten to focus on network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) over TCP/IP protocol details and WINS message exchanges

• Chapter 17 (formerly Chapter 20): Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Restructured and rewritten to focus on RADIUS protocol details and message exchanges

• Chapter 18 (formerly Chapter 22): Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) Updated to include information about Authenticated IP (Auth IP)

• Chapter 19 (formerly Chapter 23): Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Restructured and rewritten to focus on Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) details and message exchanges, and updated to include information about the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)

• Appendix A (formerly Chapter 6): IP Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing Updated for new terminology and for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista