(Paperback - Jan. 5, 2006)
by Christian Benvenuti
Sales Rank: 63911
List Price: $59.99 $35.99 At Amazon
Paperback: 1072 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition December 29, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596002556
ISBN-13: 978-0596002558
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Review
"Anyone who works with Linux networking should have a copy to hand to help with those inexplicable problems and to better understand how it all works." - James Millen, BJHC & IM, November 2006
Customer Reviews & Comments I have read a number of books on the TCP/IP protocols and their implementations; both the original Berkeley (BSD) Unix TCP/IP stack and the Linux TCP/IP stack. I must say that this is the best of all of them. This book makes the subject very approachable for the newcomer to network protocol software but the explanations are detailed enough to satisfy an old dog like me. Benvenuti's writing style is clear and very readable. He liberally provides diagrams to illustrate the concepts he is discussing.
My only fault with the book is that the transport layer protocols (UDP and TCP) are not covered. Benvenuti provides a list of important areas of the networking software that are not covered in the book but gives other references for most of these. I hope that he is working on a volume 2 to cover these areas.
I would sum up by saying that if you want to learn about the Linux networking software or network protocol software in general, start with this book. This book will give you the background to understand other, less well written books that cover the remaining networking software topics.
