LYNCH@A.ISI.EDU (Dan Lynch) (05/31/88)
Dewey, Kent England has already responded with a good list of reading materials. I would add that the Comer book, "Internetworking with TCP/IP", published by Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-470154-2, price $36, is excellent material for the serious reader. It gives a lot of "motivational material" to understand why Internetting is both desirable and not exactly trivial. Chuck Hedrick's 25 page intro to TCP/IP and campus networking is also a handy starter. There are so many aspects to networking that is is hard to find the right materials for each person who is trying to get started. We try to fill some of the gaps with tutorials of all flavors (beginner, middle, advanced, and obscure) and find that people flock to them when they are offered publically. I hope that Universities will pick up on Comer's book and use it as a text book. WE need more people to understand how to design, build and operate internets. Dan -------
hrp@fermi.CRAY.COM (Hal Peterson) (06/13/88)
You ask for a universal sample client/server pair. The trick is the ``universal'' part, in the face of zillions of hardware architectures, implementation languages, and interfaces to the protocols and OS. A change in any ONE of those three parameters can cause enormous porting headaches for any non-trivial program. The best you can do is either a vague and generic description of, say, the sequence of actions an ULP must use to handshake with TCP (which you can find in the RFCs) or a specific example that's reliably good for one kind of box running one flavor of OS/protocol interface and is written on one source language. Neither of those is what you want. Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1440 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN 55120 hrp%hall.CRAY.COM@umn-rei-uc.ARPA ihnp4!cray!hrp (612) 681-3145
farnham%nrl.DECnet@NRL3.ARPA ("NRL::FARNHAM") (06/28/88)
HI!
HOW DOES ONE GET A COPY OF THE HEADRICK MATERIAL. I CHECKED
WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MD. BOOK EXCHANGE AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT.
I ALSO ASKED OUR NETWORK PEOPLE HERE AT NRL AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT.
HEEELLLPPP!!!
I'D REALLY LIKE TO READ IT.
EMILY D. FARNHAM
CODE 2861.7
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
4555 OVERLOOK AVE. S.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20375-5000