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Figure 1-1 A Solaris Local Area Network	5
Figure 1-2 How Information is Transferred on a Network	7
Figure 2-1 How a Packet Travels through the TCP/IP Stack	19
Figure 3-1 Parts of an IP Address	28
Figure 3-2 Byte Assignment in a Class A Address	29
Figure 3-3 Byte Assignment in a Class B Address	30
Figure 3-4 Byte Assignment in a Class C Address	30
Figure 3-5 Basic Network Topology	39
Figure 3-6 Providing an Additional Path Between Networks	40
Figure 3-7 Three Interconnected Networks	41
Figure 4-1 Hosts in a Sample Network	48
Figure 4-2 Forms of the `hosts` Database Used by Name Services	60
Figure 4-3 `nsswitch.conf` for Networks Using Files for Name Service	62
Figure 4-4 `nsswitch.conf` for a Diskless Client on a Network Running NIS	64
Figure 7-1 Basic Point-to-Point Link	100


Figure 7-2 Nomadic Computers and Dynamic Link Dial-in Server	102
Figure 7-3 Two Networks Connected by a PPP Link	104
Figure 7-4 Nomadic Computers and Multipoint Dial-in Server	105
Figure 7-5 Virtual Network of Nomadic Computers	107
Figure 7-6 PPP Component Software	108
Figure 9-1 Sample Network of Remote Hosts and Multipoint Dial-in Server	130
Figure 11-1 Network of Remote Hosts and Dynamic Link Dial-in Servers	162
Figure 11-2 Sample Virtual Network	168