Level: Introductory

Adam Cormany (acormany@yahoo.com), National Data Center Manager, Scientific Games Corporation

22 Apr 2008

The Internet has played a huge role in the advancement of technology, business, and everyday life for huge numbers of the world's people. Configuring a computer to communicate over a network and connecting to the Internet has become an essential task for administrators. This article shows how to configure a server running IBM® AIX® to connect to and use the Internet.

As defined in Wikipedia, the Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). The Internet is, in a sense, the largest network in the world and spans the globe many times over.

The Internet and the Web are not the same thing, although people interchange the terms frequently. The World Wide Web (WWW), or the Web, is a collection of hypertext documents containing images, audio and video clips, and other files interlinked and accessed over the Internet.

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