TCP/IP (Parallel Library) Configuration and Management Manual

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HP NonStop TCP/IP (Parallel Library) Configuration and Management Manual522271-006
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Background Manuals and Prerequisite Materials
The Expand Configuration and Management Manual describes how to plan,
configure, and manage the Expand subsystem on a NonStop S-series server. Use
this manual for configuring Expand-over-IP lines.
Background Manuals and Prerequisite
Materials
This subsection lists reference material that you can use to acquire the background
required for managing TCP/IP on NonStop servers.
For an overview of TCP/IP, see the books TCP/IP Illustrated Volume I and TCP/IP
Illustrated Volume II by W. Richard Stevens, Prentice Hall, 1994.
For an in-depth explanation of the Domain Name Server, see the book DNS and BIND
by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O’Reilly and Associates, Inc.
Request for Comments (RFC) is a series of documents published by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). The following RFCs related to TCP/IP can be located
on the Internet. (As of this printing, the IETF home site is: http://www.ietf.org/
however, since URLs change frequently, if you cannot locate this site using that URL,
try using your preferred search engine and the keyword IETF and, once on the home
page for the IETF, navigate to “RFCs.”)
RFC 768 “User Datagram Protocol”
RFC 791 “Internet Protocol”
RFC 792 “Internet Control Message Protocol”
RFC 793 “Transmission Control Protocol”
RFC 819 “Domain Naming Convention for Internet User Applications”
RFC 821 “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”
RFC 826 “Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol”
RFC 894 “Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams Over Ethernet Networks”
RFC 973 “Domain System Changes and Observations”
RFC 974 “Mail Routing and Domain System”
RFC 1034 “Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities”
RFC 1042 “Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams Over IEEE 802
Networks”
RFC 1323 “TCP Extensions for High Performance”