mike@bnr-vpa.UUCP (11/20/87)
This might sound like a dumb question, but can anyone out there
recommend a textbook/series of articles/etc that describe simply
just what tcp/ip is (other than the usual intro. "TCP/IP is a series
of protocols that the Department of Defense created ...")
Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks" barely references it, and
Mischa Schwartz's "Telecommunication Networks/ Protocols, Modeling and
Analysis" has maybe 5 pages on the subject.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Norman (bnr-vpa!mike) Phone: (613) 726-7717
Bell-Northern Research Usenet: {utzoo, utgpu}!bnr-vpa!mike
P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7fossum@uwpvacs.UUCP (Timothy Fossum) (11/22/87)
>This might sound like a dumb question, but can anyone out there >recommend a textbook/series of articles/etc that describe simply >just what tcp/ip is (other than the usual intro. "TCP/IP is a series >of protocols that the Department of Defense created ...") >Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks" barely references it, and >Mischa Schwartz's "Telecommunication Networks/ Protocols, Modeling and >Analysis" has maybe 5 pages on the subject. Doug Comer's book "Operating Systems Design, Internetworking with Xinu", describes the IP part of TCP/IP, and goes into some detail about UDP as well. There must be someone else who can give you information about the details of TCP.
hagens@CS.WISC.EDU (11/24/87)
No references for you - but I could probably spare a bit of time on the phone if you have questions. Rob Hagens UW Madison Computer Science Dept.
andrews@hpsal2.HP.COM (Edward E. Andrews) (11/24/87)
Charles L. Hedrick wrote an article about Internet protocols in July and posted it on the net. A copy of that would be a good beginner's guide.
PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville") (11/25/87)
Anyone remember where "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet" is kept? This might be handy for Mike... -Philip
bae@lll-aftac.arpa (Hwa Jin Bae) (11/25/87)
Charles Hedrick of Rutgers has written a "Introduction to TCP/IP"
which I thought was a very good overview of the Internet.
You can probably ftp it from "topaz.rutgers.edu".
Hwa Jin Bae (415) 463-6865
Control Data Corporation bae@{lll-tis.arpa,lll-aftac.arpa} (Internet)
4234 Hacienda Drive {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg}!lll-tis!plseca!hbae (UUCP)
Pleasanton, CA 94566 **** CDC is not responsible for my opinion ***BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET.UUCP (11/27/87)
Try "The Elements of Networking Style", by M. A. Padlipsky. This book may drive you nuts with its expositional style, but the ideas are no-nonsense, even if highly opinionated. The publisher is Prentice-Hall. Cheers, B. Becker Humber College Etobicoke, Ont.
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (12/02/87)
> Doug Comer's book "Operating Systems Design, Internetworking with Xinu", > describes the IP part of TCP/IP... Well, no, actually Comer's book describes a subset of IP, leaving out some fairly important things. As of a few months ago when I asked the tcp-ip mailing list about this, nobody was aware of any single book that gives a thorough tutorial discussion that includes the fine points. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry