CIS 170F: Windows 7 Administration

Week 1

Networking Models
Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking

  • Similar in concept to the traditional workgroup model
    • But technically different
  • Makes peer-to-peer infrastructure scalable from the LAN to the Internet
    • As long as they communicate using IPv6
  • Teredo allows IPv6 traffic to be embedded in legacy IPv4 traffic
  • Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) is used by Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking clients
    • To discover each other