Comprehensive Report: Computer Networking Principles and Practices

This report provides an overview of computer networking, focusing on the evolution and application of internet technologies. It discusses the interconnection of computer devices using routers and switches, and the flow of internet data. The report explains the role of TCP/IP in locating senders and receivers, and the use of DHCP for managing IP addresses. It highlights the advantages of DHCP, such as simplified network administration and reduced IP address conflicts, as well as its disadvantages, including potential routing limitations and security concerns. The report concludes by emphasizing the significant advancements in internet speed and cost, and their impact on information access. References to key research papers are included, covering topics such as software-defined networking, secure internet group management protocol, and information-centric networking.

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Introduction
The networking concept is one of the most advanced and most interesting thing that
have evolved in the past few year that have helped a lot in the development of internet in the
modern world (Kreutz et al., 2015). This paper provides some of the best and most efficient
way how the internet can be used for the purpose of the development of the networking.
Network
The computer devices in this paper is connect using the networking concept.
There have been a number of routers used in the process of the networking. The routers are
interconnected using the wires and are further connected to the switches. This switchers are
further connected to the computer systems. The internet is passed from the servers to the
router and to the computer systems. The flow of the internet is similar to a normal mail
sending process. The TCP/IP helps in the process of locating senders and receivers address.
Once the receivers address is located by the TCP then information is sent by to the addresses
(Chen & Atwood, 2018). The routers are connected with the help of the DHCP or the
Dynamic Host control protocol. The DHCP helps in the process of the interconnection of the
devices in a network. There are many advantages of the DHCP. One of the major advantage
of the DHCP is that thee network manager can put up manual IP addresses for each of the
device that is connected (Nunes et al., 2014). Thus helping to process the IP addresses. One
of the other major advantage of the DHCP is reduces the chance of duplicate IP addresses in
a single network to zero. It further helps in the process of administration of network in a
simplified manner. In case of the mobile devices the IP address of the DHCP is automatically
generated and hence there is no need of the manual configuration.
Apart from the advantages of the DHCP there are various disadvantage of the DHCP
servers. The major disadvantage of using the DHCP is, routing cannot be done in between

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two routers when the DHCP is used and hence a major backlog in a network as there comes
the need of the relay agents have to be used for the process (Zhang et al., 2014). One of the
other major problem is that if there is a single error present, the entire network stops and
hence is one of the major backlog for big networks. One of the other major security concern
that is been found in the DHCP system is that it does not check for the client authentication
hence unauthorised access can be easily made using the DHCP servers. Hence this can be
said that use of the DHCP can be helpful as well as very much disadvantageous also
(Xylomenos et al., 2014). This is one of the easier process which helps to manage a small
network. When there is less number of routers the process of the routing helps a lot in
managing the IP addresses (Xia et al., 2015). But the major problem in this is that when there
is large number of the networking working on each and every other router for the process of
the routing makes it difficult and very much complex. Hence the use of the DHCP helps in
the process of auto allocation of the IP addresses or manually and also there is no need of the
routing processes.
Conclusion
The revolution of the internet technology have increased a lot since the
beginning of it. There have been a significant amount of increase in terms of speed and cost.
The increased speed have helped people to access different information from the world. Other
than this the price of the internet have lowered in a very significant amount hence helping the
common public to access information in easier manner.

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