Design, implementation, and internals

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Design, implementation, and internals

Douglas E. Comer and David L. Stevens

(Internetworking with TCP/IP, v. 2)

Prentice-Hall, c1991

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 509-516

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume extends the concepts discussed in Comer's first volume to show how to implement communication protocols in software. Providing an examination of the internals of TCP/IP protocal software, this volume covers the basic operating system concepts (eg interrupts, processes, semaphores and interprocess communications) and then explains the structure of TCP/IP software in terms of these facilities. The book discusses the protocols in the light of design alternatives, decisions and implementation techniques, contains working source code for most protocols, including ARP, TCP, IP and RIP, reviews an example implementation from a working system, and defines structures, constants and code for procedures and processes in C.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction and overview
  • structure of TCP/IP software in an operating system
  • network interface layer
  • address discovery and binding
  • IP - data structures and software organization
  • IP - routing
  • IP - fragmentation and reassembly
  • ICMP
  • UDP
  • socket level interface
  • TCP - data structures and software overview
  • TCP - timer management
  • TCP - adaptive retransmission
  • TCP - urgent data and other functions
  • routing information protocol - passive updates
  • routing information protocol - active processing
  • network management - MIB variables
  • network management SNMP server
  • commands for network status and control
  • hints and suggestions for implementers.

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