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1. Books About TCP/IP and networking.
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1.1 Paper books.
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Richard Stevens' TCP/IP illustrated.
Published by Addison-Wesley.
Volume 1 - describes the TCP/IP protocols.
ISBN 0201633469
Volume 2 - describes the TCP/IP stack as implemented in 4.4BSD-Lite,
at the source code level.
ISBN 020163354X
Volume 3 - describes HTTP, NNTP, and more.
ISBN 0201634953
Richard Stevens' UNIX Network Programming.
Published by Prentice Hall.
Described here is the 2nd edition of the book.
The 1st edition (ISBN 0139498761) will be sold until the third
volume of of the 2nd edition will be out.
Volume 1 - "Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI".
Describes UNIX network programming in & out, including
a lot of code examples, covering IPv4 & IPv6, sockets
and XTI, TCP & UDP, raw sockets, programming techniques,
multicasting & broadcasting, and what not. The best
TCP/IP programming book around, IMHO.
ISBN 013490012X
Volume 2 - "Interprocess Communications".
ISBN 0130810819
Volume 3 - "Applications"
Name is probable, to be published.
Due to Richard Steven's death on Sep 1st 1999,
I'm in the dark regarding this volume's future.
I have sent a query to Prentice-Hall, and will
update the text accordingly.
Douglas Comer's Internetworking with TCP/IP.
Published by Prentice-Hall.
Volume 1 - describes the TCP/IP protocols, architecture and principles.
ISBN 0132169878
Volume 2 - describes a TCP/IP implementation (with C code),
implemented on the XINU operating system.
ISBN 0131255274
Volume 3 - describes network programming, and has a sockets version
(ISBN 013260969X), a TLI version (ISBN 0132609770),
and a winsock version (ISBN 0138487146)
Internet Core Protocols
By Eric A. Hall
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN 1565925726
This book, subtitled "An Owner's Manual for the Internet", does
a very good work of explaining the core protocols - IP, ICMP,
IGMP & multicasting, UDP, and TCP. The detailed explanations
are accompanied by sample packet decodes (a lite version of
the decoding is available on the accompanying CD).
Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference
By Thomas Lee and Joseph Davies
Published by Microsoft Press
ISBN 0735605564
This book does to MS-Windows 2000 what Stevens' books did to Unix.
It explains IP from ground up, starting with LAN & WAN protocols,
through ARP, IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP & UDP, and up to the application
layer. Everything is explained with diagrams and explanations of
how are the protocols work on MS-Windows 2000.
Effective TCP/IP Programming - 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs
By Jon C. Snader
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201615894
This book is a must book for new sockets applications writers.
The book gives the basics of TCP/IP for programmers, rather than
from an academical point of view, giving effective tips, techniques,
and whole programs in C to assist network programmers in writing
solid networking programs.
TCP/IP Explained
By Philip Miller
Published by Digital Press
ISBN 1555581668
A fine book about TCP/IP, covering all the layers, starting with an
overview of the lowest 2 OSI layers, through IP(+ICMP), UDP, TCP,
routing (RIP + OSPF + EGP + BGP), broadcasting and multicasting,
DNS, SNMP, several apps (FTP, Telnet, SMTP, ...), with chapters
about IPv6 and Internet Security. The book is readable, with lots
of diagrams and packet trace decodes. Some points missing, such
as TCP congestion avoidance.
Troubleshooting TCP/IP - Analyzing the Protocols of the Internet
By Mark A. Miller
Published by M & T Books
ISBN 1558514503
A good troubleshooting guide, with good explanations of most
protocols, starting from network layer, through ARP, DNS, routing,
and up to the applications, including SMTP, FTP, and TELNET.
Coverage includes SNMP, ATM, IPv6. Case studies, included for
every subject, include sniffer output and explanations.
High-Speed Networks: TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles
By William Stallings
Published by Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0135259657
This book explains how to design high-speed networks (ATM, 100 Mbps &
Gbps ethernet) intended to carry high volume data (WWW, still images,
video on demand, etc). Coverage includes explanation of ATM and Fast &
Gigabit Ethernet, the mathematical background needed for performance
analysis, traffic management (IP & ATM), routing, and compression.
TCP/IP: Architecture, Protocols, and Implementation with IPv6 and IP Security
By Sidnie Feit
Published by McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0070213895
This book covers TCP/IP in one volume, starting from the physical
layer, through IP, UDP & TCP, the various applications (WWW, mail, etc)
to network management.
SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON1 and RMON2
By William Stallings
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201485346
An encyclopedic book about SNMP & RMON. Covers the material in
depth and clarity, giving good background of the subject.
SNMP - A Guide to Network Management
By Dr. Sidnie Feit
Published by McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0070203598
A thorough, though a bit dated, book about SNMP. Covers SNMP(v1)
and SNMPv2 clearly with all the details, which is handy for
actually managing a network with SNMP.
Networking with Microsoft TCP/IP
By Drew Heywood
Published by New Riders
ISBN 1562057138
An excellent book about management of Microsoft Windows TCP/IP
networks, starting from the basics of explaining networking technologies,
through installation of TCP/IP on DOS and all MS Windows versions,
routing, managing (DHCP, WINS, DNS), troubleshooting, IIS & FrontPage.
TCP/IP Network Administration
By Craig Hunt
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN 1565923227
An excellent book about management of TCP/IP networks, covering
every subject that needed, including DNS, routing, sendmail,
configuring, and trouble-shooting. This book is UNIX oriented.
Networking Personal Computers with TCP/IP - Building TCP/IP Networks
By Craig Hunt
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN 1565921232
A good book about management of TCP/IP networks, which is PC
oriented, covering DOS, Windows, Windows-95, and Windows-NT.
Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 days.
By Timothy Parker
Published by SAM'S Publishing.
ISBN 0672305496
This book is intended for network managers, and gives an overview
of TCP/IP from ground up, in a short schedule.
PPP Design and Debugging
By James Carlson
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201185393
An excellent book about PPP. This compact book is packed with info
about PPP, covering it in both depth and width, covering LCP,
negotiation & authentication, network layer protocols, bandwidth
management, etc, including trace interpretation, C code & pseudo
code, and lots of resources and references.
NOSintro -- TCP/IP over Packet Radio
(An Introduction to the KA9Q Network Operating System)
By Ian Wade
Published by Dowermain
ISBN 1897649002
NOSintro describes in detail how to use Phil Karn's KA9Q Network
Operating System, and is a classic reference work in this area.
It includes full information on how to install & configure KA9Q,
and how to make it work in a packet radio environment.
The book is very well illustrated, with many diagrams & hands-on
examples of keyboard commands.
Extracts from the book are available at [url]http://www.ian.wade.care4free.net/nosintro.htm[/url]
IPv6: The New Internet Protocol
By Christian Huitema
Published by Prentice-Hall.
ISBN 0138505055
This book, written by Christian Huitema - a member of the Internet
Architecture Board, gives an excellent description of IPv6, how
it differs from IPv4, and the hows and whys of it's development.
Unix Network Programming
By W. Richard Stevens
Published by Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0139498761
Obsoleted by the second edition, covered above.
Due to Richard Steven's death on Sep 1st 1999,
I'm in the dark regarding this books's future.
I have sent a query to Prentice-Hall, and will
update the text accordingly.
Unix System V. Network Programming
By Steven A. Rago
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201563185
This books gives a good coverage of UNIX network programming.
Though it is centered around SVR4, it covers many subjects,
including STREAMS, TLI, sockets, RPC, and kernel level
communications, including ethernet & SLIP drivers.
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System.
By Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels
and John S. Quarterman.
Published by Addison-Wesley.
ISBN 0201549794
This book describes the internals of the 4.4 BSD operating system,
including the Net/2 TCP/IP stack implementation. A good explanation
of the most commonly used implementation of TCP/IP.
Linux Kernel Internals
By M. Beck, H. Bohme, M. Dziadzka, U. Kunitz, R. Magnus,
and D. Verworner.
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201331438
This book describes the internals of the Linux operating system,
version 2.0, with a chapter devoted to the TCP/IP stack.
Windows Sockets Network Programming
By Bob Quinn and Dave Shute
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201633728
An excellent book about winsock programming, with chapters about
porting apps from BSD Unix & sockets, DLLs, debugging, and nice appendice.
The two following books are not directly related to TCP/IP, but are
recommended as good books for windows programmer who write TCP/IP
clients & servers, and are complementary to the above book :
1. Win32 Network Programming
By Ralph Davis
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201489309
This book shows programmers how to build networked apps
using the 32-bit features of Win95 and NT, and includes
a floppy with all the examples' code.
2. Multithreading Applications in Win32
By Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201442345
This book shows developers how, when and where to use
multi-threading in Win32 applications, and includes a CD-ROM.
Differentiated Services for the Internet
By Kalevi Kilkki
Published by Macmillan Technical Publishing
ISBN 1578701325
An up to date and thorough book about the subject. Covers the
history of the subject, it's rational, and it's working in detail.
Interconnections
Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols.
By Radia Perlman
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201634481
The second edition is much expanded over the first edition. It
covers bridging & routing with extensive theory and technical depth.
New material covers VLANs, ATM, WAN multicasting, and the routing
chapter covers not only IP but DECnet, IPX and PNNI as well.
Security is well covered, in contrast to other books on the subject.
Routing in the Internet
By Christian Huitema
Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 0131321927
A clear and thorough, though a bit dated, book about routing.
Covers all major routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, IGRP & EIGRP, IS-IS,
EGP, BGP3, BGP4 & CIDR), and covers multicast, mobility,
and resource reservation.
Internet Routing Architectures
By Bassam Halabi
Published by Cisco Press
ISBN 1562056522
A clear and through book about interdomain routing network design,
with many clear examples with diagrams. Focuses on BGP4 and is,
naturally, oriented toward Cisco's way of doing it (which is not
much of a limit, considering Cisco's dominance of the routers market).
OSPF, Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol
By John T. Moy
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201634724
A great book about OSPF, including it's history, multicast routing,
management, debugging, comparisons to other routing protocols. The
book was written by the author of the OSPF RFCs, who is both a good
author and authorative source of information on the protocol.
A companion book has been published, containing a complete implementation
of an OSPF daemon in C++ on CD-ROM and the text of the book documents the
implementation. I had not seen a copy of the book, but it's details are
OSPF Complete Implementation
By John T. Moy
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201309661
BGP4
By John W. Stewart III
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201379511
A small (<150 pages) book, covering BGP4 in full using clear language
and drawings. The four chapters include an introduction, the protocol,
operations, and extensions (scaling, route flap dampening, authentication,
negotiation, etc).
RIP - An Intra-Domain Routing Protocol
By Gary Scott Malkin
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201433206
Another small (<120 pages) book, covering RIP v1 & v2 in a concise and
clear manner and drawings. The book includes some introductory material,
e.g. topologies and subnets/supernets, three chapters about configuration
(including Nortel & Cisco routers) and troubleshooting, and three chapters
covering the RIP specs & MIB.
Data and Computer Communications
By William Stallings
Published by Prentice-Hall.
ISBN 0024154253
A very good book about computer communications basics.
Includes information about TCP/IP and IPv6.
Computer Networks
By Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Published by Prentice-Hall.
ISBN 0133499456
A very good book about computer communications basics.
Describes communications according to the OSI seven layers model,
but includes information about TCP/IP and IPv6.
Information Warfare and Security
By Dorothy E. Denning
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0201433036
A book covering all aspects of information warfare with clear
explanations and many references. Gives an excellent framework
to Internet security.
1.2 On-line books and magazines.
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Publishers' sites can be found at -
O'Reilly [url]http://www.oreilly.com/[/url]
Prentice Hall [url]http://www.prenhall.com/[/url]
Addison Wesley [url]http://www.aw.com/[/url]
MacMillan [url]http://www.mcp.com/[/url]
McGraw-Hill [url]http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/[/url]
MIS:Press [url]http://www.mispress.com/[/url] (M & T Books)
New Riders [url]http://www.newriders.com/[/url]
You can find many books on the web :
1. Macmillan's Personal Bookshelf
[url]http://www.informit.com/free_library/index.asp</a[/url]>
2. National Academy Press's Reading Room
[url]http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm[/url]
3. The Network Administrators' Guide, by Olaf Kirch.
[url]http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/LDP/nag/nag.html[/url]
4. Computer Networks and Internets, by Douglas E. Comer.
[url]http://www.netbook.cs.purdue.edu/[/url]
5. Netizens: An Anthology, by
[url]http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/[/url]
[url]ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/netbook/[/url]
Books related pages :
1. The Xinu BUG Page at the University of Canberra, Australia.
[url]http://willow.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/bugs.html[/url]
2. List of enhancements to Comer's TCP code by Simon Ilyushchenko
[url]http://simonf.com/tcp/[/url]
On-line networking magazines :
1. Network Magazine
[url]http://www.networkmagazine.com/[/url]
2. Network Computing
[url]http://www.networkcomputing.com/[/url]
3. Data Communications magazine has a collection of technical
tutorials available at it's site, covering such subjects as
ATM, IP, high speed networking, etc.
[url]http://www.networkmagazine.com/Tutorials/[/url]
4. First Monday is a journal about the Internet which is published on
the internet, with all it's articles peer-reviewed.
It's archives contain articles about TCP/IP, indexed at
[url]http://www.firstmonday.dk/subjects/technical.html[/url]
2. Major On-Line Resources.
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2.1 TCP/IP Introductions & Courses.
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[url]gopher://gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu/11/Index/Internet_aw/[/url]
Optimized Engineering Technical Compendium (LANs & IP)
[url]http://www.optimized.com/COMPENDI/[/url]
Introduction to TCP/IP
[url]http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM[/url]
Introduction to the Internet Protocols
[url]http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/[/url]
Under the hood of the 'net: An overview of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite,
By Jason Yanowitz.
[url]http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/tcpjmy.html[/url]
IP overview, by Cisco.
[url]http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ip.htm[/url]
Tech-NIC's technical page
[url]http://www.tech-nic.net/html/technical.html[/url]
Thomas's Technical Links
[url]http://www.psp.co.uk/tfl/techlinks.htm[/url]
"TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview" from IBM
[url]http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/GG243376.html[/url]
An Overview of TCP/IP Protocols and the Internet
[url]http://www.garykessler.net/library/tcpip.html[/url]
Hedrick-intro to the Internet Protocols
[url]http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/[/url]
Von Welch has a network performance page at
[url]http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/vwelch/net_perf/[/url]
One of the subpages explains TCP windows
[url]http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/vwelch/net_perf/tcp_windows.html[/url]
Marc Slemko' Path MTU Discovery and Filtering ICMP
[url]http://www.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/[/url]
Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
[url]http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/index.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/CIE/index.htm[/url]
Materials on TCP/IP Networking
[url]http://spectral.mscs.mu.edu/NetworksClass/Materials/[/url]
Computer Networking and Internet Protocols
By Keith W. Ross and James F. Kurose
[url]http://occ.awlonline.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kurose-ross1/[/url]
TCP/IP courses from universities :
0. The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
maintains a list of pointers to Internet Engineering
related university courses.
[url]http://www.caida.org/outreach/iec/courses/[/url]
1. Dr. Reuven Cohen
Internet Networking
Technion - Israel Institute of Science
[url]http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Courses/cs236341/[/url]
2. Dr. Shlomi Dolev
Computer Communications and Distributed Algorithms
Ben-Gurion University
[url]http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ccda012/[/url] (slides are in hebrew)
3. Dr. Ofer Hadar
Introduction To Computer Networks
Technion - Israel Institute of Science
[url]http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~cs236334/[/url] (slides are in hebrew)
4. Dr. Arieal Orda
Internet - Architecutre and Protocols
Technion - Israel Institute of Science
[url]http://tiger.technion.ac.il/courses/046000/[/url]
5. Dave Hollinger
Network Programming
[url]http://www.cs.rpi.edu/courses/netprog/index.html[/url]
6. Prof. Jim Kurose
Computer Networks
[url]http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/cs653/[/url]
7. Phil Scott
Data Communications, Computer Networks
[url]http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/staff/pscott/pscott.home.html[/url]
8. David Cyganski
Telecommunications Transmission Technologies
[url]http://bugs.wpi.edu:8080/EE535/[/url]
9. S. Keshav
Engineering Computer Networks
[url]http://web.archive.org/web/20011101082505/http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs519/[/url]
10. Prof. Ralph Droms
Purdue University
Computer Networks
[url]http://www.netbook.cs.purdue.edu/cs363/index.html[/url]
11. Simon Cleary
RMIT university
Computer Networks and Protocols
[url]http://www.cse.rmit.edu.au/~rdssc/courses/ds454/[/url]
12. Phil Scott
La Trobe university
Computer Networks
[url]http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/subjects/bitcne/[/url]
Data Communications
[url]http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/courses/bcomp/c202/[/url]
2.2 Resources for programmers.
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The comp.protocols.tcp-ip group has a FAQ, previously maintained by
George V. Neville-Neil, now by Mike Oliver, is located at :
[url]ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/internet/tcp-ip/tcp-ip-faq/[/url]
[url]http://www.itprc.com/tcpipfaq/default.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.private.org.il/tcpip-faq/default.htm[/url]
The sockets programming FAQ, by Vic Metcalfe, is located at :
[url]ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/socket[/url]
[url]http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/socket/index.html[/url]
BSD socket programming tutorials
Quick - [url]http://ftp.std.com/homepages/jimf/sockets.html[/url]
Intro - [url]http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/unix/ipc/ipctut.html[/url]
Advanced - [url]http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/unix/advipc/ipc.html[/url]
Unix Network Programming
[url]http://www-net.cs.umass.edu/ntu_socket/[/url]
The Winsock Programmer's FAQ, by Warren Young, is located at :
[url]http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/[/url]
[url]http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows/winsock/programmer-faq/index.html[/url]
[url]ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/windows/winsock/programmer-faq[/url]
Al's WinSock Tuning FAQ
[url]http://www.cerberus-sys.com/~belleisl/mtu_mss_rwin.html[/url]
The windows-sockets page, by Bob Quinn, is located at :
[url]http://www.sockets.com/[/url]
The sockaddr.com - Programming Resources for WinSock site, is located at :
[url]http://www.sockaddr.com/[/url]
The Raw IP Networking FAQ, by Thamer Al-Herbish, is available at :
[url]http://www.whitefang.com/rin/[/url]
Catalyst's Introduction to TCP/IP Programming
[url]http://www.catalyst.com/support/tutorials/tcpintro/[/url]
RPC - Remote Procedure Calls
[url]http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/OS/l14_1.html[/url]
[url]http://www.ja.net/documents/NetworkNews/Issue44/RPC.html[/url]
An Introduction to Socket Programming
[url]http://www.uwo.ca/its/doc/courses/notes/socket/index.html[/url]
Beej's Guide to Network Programming
[url]http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/[/url]
Vijay Mukhi's Winsock Programming page
[url]http://www.vijaymukhi.com/vmis/wsock.htm[/url]
Spencer's Socket Site
[url]http://www.lowtek.com/sockets/[/url]