SSROB@ECUVM1.BITNET (Rob Hudson) (10/24/88)
Hi,
The Computing Center at East Carolina University is currently looking into
TCP-IP. We would like to know some good books explaining TCP-IP and if there
are any documents on the Network that would be of help to us. We are just
starting to look into TCP-IP so some of the material may need to be elementary.
Thanks in advance.
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ROB L. HUDSON SSROB@ECUVM1.BITNET
Systems Programmer (919) 757 - 6401
East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858
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ROB L. HUDSON SSROB@ECUVM1.BITNET
Systems Programmer (919) 757 - 6401
East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (10/27/88)
Rob:
The consensus is that Doug Comer's book, Internetworking with TCP/IP
is the best one on TCP-IP. It is available in most technical bookstores
(I've found it in every college bookstore I've been into in the past few
months).
As for information about the Internet itself, there are several sources
of information. Since I suspect you'll be connecting up to an NSFNET
regional network, I'll have an information packet sent out to you.
Craig Partridge
Director, Technical Services
NSF Network Service Center (NNSC)
(nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net)sam@VAX.FTP.COM (10/27/88)
Two good books on TCP/IP that helped acclimatize me to the networking world:
- "An Introduction to TCP/IP" by John Davidson
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
This is a small thin book with lots of diagrams. You can zip
through it on a Sunday afternoon. It concentrates mostly on IP
on Ethernet, but does a good breakdown of packet contents and
details each of the 7 OSI Model layers in separate chapters.
- "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Douglass Comer
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Not exactly Sunday afternoon reading, this is a big, thick textbook-
format book. Has worked well for me as a reference when I've needed
detailed information about something in particular. Perhaps if you
ask, the nice person who posted a very detailed review of this book
about a month ago will send you a copy.
Shelli Meyers
FTP Software, Inc.SCOTTY@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Steve Howie) (10/28/88)
I Believe IBM are making plans to sell this book through their regular documentation channels. Kinda neat concept, eh? :)
GILBERT@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (11/04/88)
In article <8811010445.AA05324@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SCOTTY@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Steve Howie) writes: >I Believe IBM are making plans to sell this book through their regular >documentation channels. Kinda neat concept, eh? :) It would be, except that SC09-1302 (the IBM order number for the Comer book) costs $211. This is a neat marketing concept for a book which costs $35 in a book store. Come on IBM, get serious!
SCOTTY@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Steve Howie) (11/23/88)
This is outrageous! I checked the price of the book up here in Canada.
$324.00 Cdn. !!!!!
With all due respect to IBM, what is the point of offering a textbook
normally cost $35-40 for this completely exorbitant price? It was a noble
gesture to offer it to aid sites which are not too 'up to speed' on
Internet/TCP concepts, but why bother if no one will buy it?
Scotty