diff --git a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface.docbook b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface.docbook index c071b9c..002f9fb 100755 --- a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface.docbook +++ b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface.docbook @@ -7,32 +7,24 @@ - This book describes how you can use the telephone network to - share the development of &TCAR; with me, in a political system - where the telephone line is the only communication network - most people have (still limitted) access to. This book - provides a guide you and your friends can follow to build your - own collaborative networks using computers and the telephone - network of your country. + This book describes you can use the telephone network to + create a collaborative network using computers. To implement the configuration described in this book, you need two or more computers connected to the telephone network - of your country by mean of modem devices. Optionally, to - extend the entire network, you could use Ethternet devices to - create local area networks (LANs) on both ends of each - connection established over the telephone network able of - exchanging data between themselves. For example, consider an - infrastructure where you have one LAN for each province in - your country and then, each of these LANs are connected using - the country's telephone network. Each LAN would have one or - more server computers to concentrate the information produced - by that province and then, using the telephone network, each - server computer would be able of exchanging data between - themselves. This infrastructure would be as expensive as a - national telephone call would be (without counting the - electrical power consume required by computers, of course). + of your country by mean of modem devices. Optionally, you + could use Ethernet devices (e.g., switches) to create local + area networks (LANs) on both ends of each connection + established over the telephone network for sharing information + between them. For example, consider an infrastructure where + you have one LAN for each province in your country and then, + each of these LANs is connected one another to share + information between them using the country's telephone + network. This infrastructure would be as expensive as a + national telephone call would be (without counting the consume + of electrical power required by computers, of course). @@ -43,22 +35,25 @@ - describes how to link - computers in order to make internet services described in - available to other computers. + describes how to configure + server and client computers to transfer IP packages through + the telephone network. This is the first step you need to + setup in order to use the internet services described in . - describes how to configure - computers to provide internet services and also exchange - information between computers using the media described in - . + describes how to configure server + and client computers to exchange information using internet + services over the telephone network. Once you complete this + step, your collaborative network should be ready for + production. - contains the lincense documents + describes the lincense documents mentioned in this book.