Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 2 : Internals and Implementation - Softcover

Stevens, David L.; Comer, Douglas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131346776 ISBN 13: 9780131346772

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 1994

Synopsis

This text 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. This edition reflects changes in protocol standards; covers several new protocols - for instance, IP multicasting (IGMP protocol) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol. It also changes the implementation of TCP urgent data to illustrate the data-mark interpretation and discusses the consequences.

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From the Back Cover

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131346776
• ISBN 13: 9780131346772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 640