An excellent summary of core tcp/ip protocols is "TCP/IP Jumpstart -
Internet Protocol Basics" by Andrew G. Blank
It's got review exercises at the end of each chapter and you can get
through it in about 10hours. Only $35 from the Co-op bookshop.
ISBN 0-7821-2644-8
At 17:14 18/07/2000, Conrad Parker wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:30:54AM +1000, Matt Kozera wrote:
> >
> > And what's a good tcp/ip book to start off with ?
>
>"to start off with" you need to learn networking concepts; try:
>
>The Linux Network Administrator's Guide
>http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2e/
> -- this Second Edition was released last week :)
> -- contains a useful overview of IP routing and Linux
>configuration for various protocols
>
>"Computer Networks"
>Andrew Tanenbaum (Prentice Hall, 3rd ed 1996)
> -- covers networking concepts and theory very well
>
>
>to actually learn "TCP/IP" in copious detail:
>
>TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
>W. Richard Stevens (Addison-Wesley, 1994)
> -- keep it under your pillow at night
>
>Cisco's online documentation
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/index.htm
> -- dig around for a few years :)
>
>
>Also, somewhere in between (new, and I haven't read it so can't comment
>on how good it is):
>
>Internet Core Protocols
>Eric Hall (O'Reilly, 1 ed Feb 2000)
> -- claims to "cover the nitty gritty details of TCP, IP and UDP
>... It's the only book on Internet protocols written with system and
>network administrators in mind."
>
>
>Conrad.
>
>
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