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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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good reason to use UDP: it’s smoking fast compared to TCP.

NOTE The CompTIA A+ exams expect you to know about other TCP/IP

protocols for accomplishing Internet communications. They’re all covered in

Chapter 21.

TCP/IP Services

TCP/IP is a different type of protocol. Although it supports File and Printer

Sharing, it adds unique sharing functions, lumped together under the

umbrella term TCP/IP services. Most folks know the Hypertext Transfer

Protocol (HTTP), the language of the World Wide Web. If you want to surf

the Web, you must have TCP/IP. But TCP/IP supplies many other services

beyond just HTTP. By using a service called Secure Shell (SSH), for

example, you can access a remote system’s terminal as though you were

actually in front of that machine.

TCP/IP links any two hosts whether the two computers are on the same

LAN or on some other network within the WAN. The LANs within the WAN

are linked together with a variety of connections, ranging from basic dial-ups

to dedicated high-speed (and expensive) data lines (see Figure 19-7). To

move traffic between networks, you use routers (see Figure 19-8). Each host

sends traffic to the router only when that data is destined for a remote

network, cutting down on traffic across the more expensive WAN links. The

host makes these decisions based on the destination IP address of each

packet.

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