trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) (03/31/89)
I am looking for a good book on tcp-ip protocols. I am writing an application where several Xenix 386-based machines are chatting with each other over the Ethernet. I am currently using datagram sockets successfully, but since the messages going back and forth are extremely structured, I'm hoping to squeeze out more performance by going down to a lower level protocol. Unfortunately, the manuals provided by Excelan don't document this stuff at ALL. You have to read between the lines even to figure out how Datagram sockets work. So I am looking for some good reference books on the lower levels of tcp-ip and ethernet. Please note the multiple newsgroup posting of this message; I only subscribe to comp.unix.xenix, so could you either mail your responses or followup only to c.u.x? I will post a followup to all of the above groups with the results. Thanks in advance... +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert J Woodhead !uunet!cornell!biar!trebor CompuServe 72447,37 | | Biar Games, Inc., 10 Spruce Lane, Ithaca NY 14850 607-257-1708,3864(fax) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Games written, Viruses killed "I'm the head honcho of this here spread; | | While U Wait. Take a number. I don't need no stinking disclaimers!!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+