TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3

Praised by reviewers and practicing TCP/IP programmers alike, the TCP/IP Illustrated series examines the many facets of the TCP/IP protocol suite using a unique and highly-effective visual approach that describes the inner workings of TCP/IP with detail, insight, and clarity. Volume 3 provides detailed coverage of four essential topics with which today’s TCP/IP programmers and network administrators must be thoroughly familiar: *T/TCP (TCP for Transactions), an extension to TCP that makes client-server transactions faster, more efficient, and more reliable; *HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the foundation for the rapidly expanding World Wide Web; *NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol), the basis for the Usenet news system; and *UNIX Domain Protocols, a set of protocols used heavily in UNIX implementations. As in the previous two volumes, the book is filled with examples and implementation details within the 4.4BSD-Lite networking code. The TCP/IP Illustrated series provides a complete picture of the protocol suite that drives the Internet, and gives programmers, system administrators, and serious users the information, understanding, and skills they need to remain at the forefront of networking technology. 0201634953B04062001

Table of Contents

Part 1. TCP for Transactions

Chapter 1. T/TCP introduction

Chapter 2. T/TCP Protocol

Chapter 3. T/TCP Examples

Chapter 4. T/TCP Protocol (Continued)

Chapter 5. T/TCP implementation: Socket Layer

Chapter 6. T/TCP implementation: Routing Table

Chapter 7. T/TCP implementation: Protocol Control Blocks

Chapter 8. T/TCP implementation: TCP Overview

Chapter 9. T/TCP implementation: TCP Output

Chapter 10. T/TCP implementation: TCP Functions

Chapter 11. T/TCP implementation: TCP input

Chapter 12. T/TCP Implementation: TCP User Requests

Part 2. Additional TCP Applications

Chapter 13. HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Chapter 14. Packets Found on an HTTP Server

Chapter 15. NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol

Part 3. The Unix Domain Protocols

Chapter 16. Unix Domain Protocols: Introduction

Chapter 17. Unix Domain Protocols: Implementation

Chapter 18. Unix Domain Protocols: 1/0 and Descriptor Passing

Appendix A. Measuring Network Times

Appendix B. Coding Applications for T/TCP

About the Author

W. Richard Stevens, Ph.D. (1951-1999), was the pioneering author who taught a generation of network professionals the TCP/IP skills they’ve used to make the Internet central to everyday life. His best-selling books included all three volumes of TCP/IP Illustrated (Addison-Wesley), as well as UNIX Network Programming (Prentice Hall).