1.1 What Is the Internet?
- In this book, we’ll use the public Internet, a specific computer network, as our
principal vehicle for discussing computer networks and their protocols. But what is
the Internet? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. First, we can
describe the nuts and bolts of the Internet, that is, the basic hardware and
software components that make up the Internet. Second, we can describe the Internet
in terms of a networking infrastructure that provides services to distributed
applications. Let’s begin with the nuts-and-bolts description, using Figure 1.1 to
illustrate our discussion.
在这本书中,我们将使用公共互联网,一个特定的计算机网络,作为我们讨论计算机网络及其协议的主要工具。但是互联网是什么呢?回答这个问题有几种方法。首先,我们可以描述互联网的具体细节,即构成互联网的基本硬件和软件组件。其次,我们可以用一个为分布式应用程序提供服务的网络基础设施来描述互联网。让我们从螺母说明开