schmidg@ESDVAX.ARPA (11/24/87)
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 22-Nov-1987 19:49
From: Gerry Schmid
Username: SCHMIDG
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Tel No: (617)-256-3969
TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[PCIP@UDEL.EDU] )
Subject: RE: BEGINNER'S GUIDE
>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.
The functional specifications for TCP and IP can be FTP'd from SRI-NIC.
They are RFC793.TXT and RFC791.TXT in directory RFC. Together these
files are about 200Kb. That should be enough information for a
beginner's guide.
Gerry.
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