emosel@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Eric Mosel) (05/21/87)
... hmmmm ! Yes well , as a novice I need all the advice I can get about networking... the "foist" question is ....... What is THE definitive book on networking that you (the networking gurus) suggest I pick up? E-Mail replies, please. Thanx for all the fish.. Eric Mosel emose@note.nsf.gov
malis@CC5.BBN.COM.UUCP (05/21/87)
Eric, I like two: William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, Macmillan, 1985. Andrew Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Prentice-Hall, 1981. Regards, Andy
Kodinsky@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (05/23/87)
Eric - I would suggest three sources of information that you could consulyt in this, your first step on a long and interesting journey: First - "Computer Networks (or Computer networking)" by Tannenbaum, It presents a good general overview of networking. At Spartacus Computers we strongly recommend it to all newcomers to networking. Second - after reading Tannenbaum - get the DDN protocol handbook (actually a three volume handbook, about 8 inches thick). It will give you all the gory details of the Arpa Net, TCP, IP, etc, etc. Finally - Join the TCP/IP discussion list on the arpanet. Even if you have nothing to say, there is plenty to hear. Good luck, and welcome Frank Kastenholz
steve@BRL.ARPA (Stephen Wolff) (05/23/87)
Eric - One thing no one has mentioned yet: Tanenbaum and Stallings are **old** books - Tanenbaum, for example, has nothing on IP. If you want to copy a lovely little primer written by Dave Crocker (of MMDF "fame") from Ungermann-Bass, that gives all the gory details on IP you're welcome. Cheers, -s
hope@gatech.edu (Theodore Hope @ LEGOLAND) (05/25/87)
The following IEEE tutorial is a good overview of all kinds of stuff:
Tutorial: Computer Communications, Architectures, Protocols, and Standards.
William Stallings, Ed.
IEEE Catalog Number EH0226-1
IEEE Computer Society Order Number 604
Also, I'd recommend the following [text]book:
Data and Computer Communications
William Stallings
Macmillan Publishing Co.
ISBN 0-02-415440-7
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Theodore Hope
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Hope@gatech ARPA: Hope@Gatech.EDU
uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!hopedcrocker@ubvax.UUCP (05/26/87)
In article <8705231519.aa20147@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> steve@BRL.ARPA (Stephen Wolff) writes: >... If you want to copy >a lovely little primer written by Dave Crocker (of MMDF "fame") from >Ungermann-Bass, that gives all the gory details on IP you're welcome. Steve has done me an unexpected service. The primer is not quite ready for the printers, but is very close. However, Ungermann-Bass has not yet fully decided how to use this document. It was written as a moderately sanitary introduction to the topic of TCP/IP, with a reduced (if not minimal) amount of vendor-specific content. (You may prefer the term 'hype'.) You might try contacting your local UB sales offices, tho the folks there will not yet have heard of the document. This will create just the field sales demand we need to get a large-scale printing.
seisner@CC5.BBN.COM (05/26/87)
You might also try "Data Networks" by Bertsekas and Gallager, which just came out in the past few months. Sharon