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| Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs (ISBN: 0201615894) |
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List Price: $34.95
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Release Date: 15 January, 2000
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (Paperback)
Sales Rank: 61,739
Author: Jon C. Snader
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Average Customer Review: 
This book provides an excellent insight into TCP/IP programming. The concepts are presented in a system independent manner as much as possible. The focus of the book is to teach TCP/IP programming concepts and not to teach how to program in WINDOWS, so readers who are not competent in Windows programming may need another reference to help them out there. I have not found another book that so clearly outlines the considerations that must be made in order to design an effective and robust TCP/IP interface. A list of some of the points that I found very helpful are:
1) Why to use TCP instead of UDP except for very specific circumstances.
2) TCP is a STREAM protocol with no inherent notion of message or message boundary.
3) Why to combine data into larger writes instead of many small writes.
4) A discussion of avoiding movement of data with Shared Memory.
| A MUST-HAVE for Programmers and Sysadmins! | |
This is a "best of class" book. Jon Snader's explanations are stunningly lucid and his sample code can be plucked out and used repeatedly. If you have ANY need to understand TCP/IP programming -- whether you program or manage a network -- you will love this book. It's one of the few that I'll read cover to cover, maybe even more than once! One of the very best books in my extensive library!
This is one of the few tcp/ip programming books I know that dares to go under the inner workings of the socket interface. Thus, it provides valuable information for using sockets in a reliable way. Certainly the definite reference is Steven's "Unix Network Programming" vol I (I have not checked out yet Comer's book vol III Linux version).
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