[ale] starting point recommendations

[Greg Freemyer]

James,

TCP/IP Illustrated Volumes 1/2/3 (by Richard Stevens) used to be the
bible of all network books.

It was explicitly UNIX / BSD iirc.  I would be very surprised if those
books have ever been supplanted as best of breed for network
programming.

Volume 1) The Protocols.  Not much C code in there, but lots of
explanation of TCP/IP.

Volume 2) The implementation. - (iirc) Disects the BSD stack and
includes user code examples.  ie. Lots of c code.

Volume 3) Higher level protocols.  (ie. TCP for Transactions, HTTP, FTP, etc)

Can't say I ever used v3 much but the other 2 got lots of use when I
was doing real c coding for a living.  (Been a decade or so).

Greg

On 11/7/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> I have a strong need for a network daemon. Due to portability reasons it
> will need to be coded in C (not an area I am familiar enough with).
>
> I am looking for recommendations from the C coders on the list for "best
> of breed" books to point me down the path to solid, secure network
> daemon coding in C for only Linux environments. I have K&R (the bible -
> duh!) and "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline (O'Reilly) (seems
> a bit useful but no network discussions).
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