| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-10-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 1009 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 7.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 60.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Thorough and authoritative, this book contains comprehensive coverage of the sockets API, the defacto standard for network programming. Once the basics are covered, the author moves on to advanced sockets topics, including IPv4 and IPv6 interoperability, UNIX domain protocols, nonblocking I/O, broadcasting, multicasting, threads and routing sockets. Client/server design alternatives are also fully examined.
Industry Reviews Tutorial on networking for those with a working knowledge of C and the UNIX system. Includes full descriptions for popular protocols such as TCP/IP, XNS, SNA, NetBIOS, OSI, and UUCP. Also includes case studies of real network applications, as well as approximately 15,000 lines of C source code, taken directly from their source files. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Elshtain
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