Windows Server 2003 for Dummies by Ed Tittel

By Ed Tittel

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MPR also defines a single common interface so that applications can access features common to all networks through a single set of interface calls. Microsoft Network Provider: Defines an open interface that allows third-party vendors to integrate support for their networks. Microsoft Network Provider also grants access to (and management of) network resources and components through common utilities, such as My Network Places and the Network Connections utilities. Microsoft Network Provider offers a single set of well-defined functions to browse servers, to connect to or disconnect from servers, and to interact with other network resources.

If the sender and the receiver are not on the same wire, a special message-forwarding computer, called a bridge or a router, passes the message from the sender's wire on toward the receiver's wire by copying the message and retransmitting that message. Bridges and routers are discussed in detail later in this chapter. For now, think of a bridge as a device that forwards information from one network to another based on Media Access Control (MAC)-level addresses. A router, on the other hand, routes information from one network to another based on network addresses.

This is the version of TCP/IP used by default on Windows 2003 as well as all previous network-capable Microsoft Windows operating systems. TCP/IP version 6 is based on a 128-bit addressing scheme. TCP/IP version 4 is so widely used that nearly all of the possible addresses have already been assigned to systems. Several technologies have been developed to help manage this issue (such as private IP address, which cannot be routed, or using NAT proxies to hide the internal addresses of a network from the Internet), but things are getting crowded.

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