TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: Implementation: Implementation

Author: Lite
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book provides a complete and detailed introduction to how the TCP/IP protocol is implemented. It includes approximately 500 figures and 15,000 lines of actual C code for practical operations, using an example-based teaching approach to help you master the implementation of TCP/IP. The book not only explains the relationship between the socket API and the protocol family, as well as the differences between host implementation and router implementation. It also introduces new features of the 4.4BSD-Lite version, such as multicast, long fat pipe support, window scaling, timestamp options, and other topics. Readers should have the basic knowledge of TCP/IP as elaborated in Volume 1 when reading this book.