Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 2: Design, Implementation, and Internals (4th Edition) - Hardcover

Comer, Douglas E.

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9780130319968: Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 2: Design, Implementation, and Internals (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0130319961 ISBN 13: 9780130319968

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2004

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In this book, Douglas E. Comer -- one of the world's leading TCP/IP experts -- presents comprehensive, up-to-date guidance for developing robust, C-based TCP/IP applications. This Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest ANSI C standards, and to deliver in-depth coverage of CIDR addressing, CIDR route lookup, and DHCP.This fully revised and updated Fourth Edition provides in-depth coverage of developing with every major TCP/IP protocol, including TCP, IP, ICMP, IGMPv2, UDP, APR, RIP2, SNMPv3, and OSPF -- including detailed ANSI C source code. Comer introduces the challenges of TCP/IP network programming, covers key design and architectural alternatives, and presents real-world implementation techniques. Using a complete TCP/IP working model, the authors demonstrate the interactions among protocols, walk through the entire implementation process, review the internal structure of TCP/IP applications, and provide a strong platform for readers to experiment. The book contains in-depth coverage of CIDR, demonstrating techniques for reducing the size of routing tables and making more IP addresses available within organizations. It also includes a full chapter on programming DHCP to automate the configuration of desktops for Internet access.For every network programmer building Internet applications with TCP/IP.

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This revision of a best seller provides an in-depth look at the TCP/IP Internet Protocols. It presents a complete implementation -- showing the internals of the TCP/IP protocol software -- with actual code.

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The Third Edition of this best-seller is a must for anyone working the TCP/IP suite of protocols.

The authors provide an in-depth look at individual TCP/IP protocols in light of design alternatives, implementation techniques with actual ANSI C code, and the internals of protocol software.

This book uses the widely accepted data-mark interpretation of TCP urgent data, a discussion of the consequences is included. Throughout the book the authors use a working system, which they designed and built using ANSI C, to explain the interaction among protocols, the complete implementation process, and the internal structure.

Reflects changes in the protocol standards and updates the example code to ANSI standard C.
Contains working source code in ANSI C for most protocols including TCP, IP, ICMP, IGMP, UDP, ARP, RIP, SNMP, and a significant part of OSPF.
Defines data structures, constants, and code for procedures and processes in ANSI standard C.
Provides active experimentation with a working TCP/IP implementation.
Implementation support for the IGMP protocol used for IP multicasting and multicast OSPF routing protocol used in applications such as audio and video multicast.
Unique coverage of the Open Shortest path First link-state routing protocol designed by the IETF.
Shows the latest interpretation of the urgent data processing.

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