TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Addison-Wesley Professional

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Label:	Addison-Wesley Professional
UPC:	785342633542
Pages:	1200
Binding:	Hardcover
Publication Date:	1995-02-10
Published By:	Addison-Wesley Professional
ASIN:	020163354X
Category:	Book

Authors

• Gary R. Wright
• W. Richard Stevens

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Customer Reviews

Classic for TCP/IP programming - Reviewed on 2008-06-06

This is a very extensive book on TCP/IP protocol implementation on BSD/Linux systems. For any one who is interested in involving in networking protocol software development, this book is a must read and also a reference. It deals with kernel implementation of protocols and user based socket APIs/ioctls in detail. I strongly recommend this book for any beginner or experience professional a like.

Proven classic book - Reviewed on 2008-05-19

I knew that this book is good, but it is more than good. You can find here any IP - related information, explained from simple to complex in all aspects. The information I was trying to find from different sources (Wikipedia etc), is just concentrated in the book.

Not so good, it is not steven's original. - Reviewed on 2008-02-12

1 customer found this review not to be helpful.

It is not so good than real steven's volume I. It has not been written by steven. But has a good review for TCP/IP stack.

Bible for TCP/IP - Reviewed on 2007-12-02

1 customer found this review helpful.

This is a bible, sliced into 3 neat pieces to explain and demonstrate everything related to TCP/IP right from the 0's and 1's in the packet. It is something like a must have set of books for someone who really wants to know the basics of networking right from its foundations.

Good summary of routing socket use and obscure BSD ioctls in general - Reviewed on 2007-05-17

I bought this book because I was faced with having to port an application that uses BSD routing sockets and interface management ioctls to an operating system that doesn't support either of these features. The book contained enough information about these fairly obscure constructs that I was able to figure out what the mystery program was doing.

Book Subjects

• Data capture & analysis
• Networking standards & protocols
• Data Transmission Standards And Protocols
• Computers
• Computers - Communications / Networking
• Computer Books: General
• Computers / Networking / Network Protocols
• Networking - Network Protocols
• Operating Systems - UNIX
• Telecommunications
• TCP/IP (Computer network proto
• TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)