The PC-Internet Connection

About the book

Want to connect your home computer, office or school to the Internet? Need to integrate the IBM PCs into your office TCP/IP network? Want to connect a bulletin board to the Internet? Having trouble getting Netware and TCP/IP to coexist? Then this is the book for you!

The PC-Internet Connection: TCP/IP Networking for DOS and Windows is about connecting one or more IBM PC compatible computers to the Internet using TCP/IP. It takes an easy to understand approach, showing you how things are done step by step, including dozens of figures and sample setup files.

This book includes an introduction to the Internet Protocol suite, as well as Appendices listing dozens of freeware and shareware Internet applications for your PC. Free updates to the book will be available online, to keep you up to date.

About the authors

Bernard Aboba, Ph.D. is a software developer, author, and consultant. He presently holds a part-time appointment as a Senior Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. Credits include development of the statistics package in Quattro Pro for Windows v5.0, and dozens of articles on communications and networking appearing in a wide variety of publications. Recent books include The BMUG Guide to Bulletin Boards and Beyond and The Online User's Encyclopedia. Bernard received a B.A. in Engineering and Applied Science from Harvard College, a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (thermosciences speciality) and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering (numerical simulation speciality) from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Britt Bassett has been involved with the Internet for more than a decade. After receiving a Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1980, Mr. Bassett went to work for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since no books or courses on TCP/IP or internetworking existed, Mr. Bassett learned how to put networks together and and make connections to the ARPANET with the hands on approach. As the NSFNET started up, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado was selected as one of the new backbone sites and Mr. Bassett moved there to join NCAR's data communications staff. As co-founder of Internet One, a network consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, Mr. Bassett has designed many aspects of the network infrastructure for a variety of Fortune 500 companies over the last three years. This book was Mr. Bassett's last project in the private sector, as he has accepted a position as the Network Manager for the NOAA Laboratories in Boulder.

Preface

Table of Contents

Understanding Cable Internet, part 1

Understanding Cable Internet, part 2

BBSNet

How PC-IP Came to Be