This book is…one nice and convenient package that I will keep on the shelf as a reference manual.

— Derek Anderson, JavaRanch GreenHorn

The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on Linux, but it provides everything else you'll need as a programmer for real-world network programming.

Whether you're a Windows developer looking to expand to Linux, or you're a proficient Linux developer looking to incorporate client-server programming into your applications, this book has a wealth of invaluable information to suit your needs.

This book covers design, implementation, debugging, and security. You'll also learn about the many kinds of socket types, sessioned versus sessionless protocols, and encryption, as well as how to build a custom protocol, how to use SSL, and how to tunnel data.

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The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming is a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on Linux, but it provides everything else you'll need as a programmer for real-world network programming.

This book is well-suited for you if you are a Windows developer looking to expand to Linux, or if you are a proficient Linux developer looking to incorporate client-server programming into your applications.

This book covers design, implementation, debugging, and security. You will also learn about the many kinds of socket types, sessioned vs. sessionless protocols, how to build a custom protocol, encryption, how to use SSL, and how to tunnel data.

Customer Reviews & Comments
This is a straightforward walkthrough of developing network clients and servers in C on Linux. Though many of the same principles could be applied to Windows network programming. The book starts off with a small chapter on architecture. It quickly becomes chapters of annotated code with a few illustrations thrown in. The text is well written and the the book is short enough to make that format workable. The last section of the book is dedicated to security. Which I appreciate since C programming is so fraught with security problems. I recommend this book to those looking to write basic network protocols with C. Though I think it should be said that using a wrapper C++ library, or some higher level applications language for network protocol work will be advisable. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)