Sarah MillerExtra CreditChapter 9TCP/IP ManagementTCP/IP Internets require ongoing regulation and provisioning. With this in mind, a lot of expertise and management efforts are required to run the TCP/IP protocol effectively and efficiently. TCP/IP is a collection of protocols and tools used to communicate over a network. TCP/IP is also the main protocol used for communications between networks. Although TCP/IP is quite complicated, it is the most versatile protocol out there. Some commonly used concepts regarding TCP/IP management are that generally a client-server mode of operation is used with TCP/IP. To run the TCP/IP server software, a gateway is used. A controlling host will run the client software. Additionally, an authentication method is required to access the server. To maintain status reports, a management information base is used (Adnet, 44). IP Subnet Planning An organization has 32 bits for its IP addresses. While the network portion is assigned and unchangeable, an organization can decide what to do with the rest of the address. One option an organization can choose is to create a subnet for its IP address space, meaning that the remaining bits are divided into a subnet part and a host part. To figure out how many possibilities you have for your subnet, you can use the 2N equation. However, it is important to remember that a network, subnet, or host cannot contain all 0s or 1s. With this in mind, an organization can have 2N-2 networks, subnets, or hosts. When it comes to creating your IP address, you realize that the larger the subnet portion, the more subnets an organization can have. However, the larger the subnet portion, the smaller the host portion. Therefore there will be fewer hosts per subnet. This means that if you want more... half the paper... t, a second level domain name is worthless unless the organization buys or rents a web server, builds a website, and then pays for an ISP to connect the website to the Internet. DHCP Server A DHCP server is responsible for assigning IP addresses and other configuration information to a client PC. This allows the PC to boot with all current configuration information. With the way this system works, every time the client PC boots up, it will have a different IP address. This is different from servers, which receive static IP addresses that allow them to have the same IP address every time. Having a static IP address allows clients to find servers. A DHCP server responds to a client PC when the PC broadcasts a dynamic host configuration protocol message to all nearby hosts. IPv6 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) management)