Covers over 30 protocols, including new and forthcoming ones. Describes packet and message formats for the most popular protocols. Is easily accessed and cross-referenced; you'll quickly find exactly what you're looking for. Contains a guide for those confusing error messages that stump you. Reveals the Internet standard process from initial proposal of a protocol to its acceptance as an Internet standard.
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Dave Roberts (Fremont, CA) is an expert on communications software development, and the author of The Coriolis Group's Developing for the Internet with Winsock and PC Game Programming EXplorer. He is currently marketing manager with ZeitNet, Inc./Cabletron Systems, a developer of high-speed networking technology.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
If you can find it, buy it!,
This review is from: Internet Protocols Handbook: The Most Complete Reference for Developing Internet Applications (Paperback)
It's too bad that this book is no longer published. While it's a bit dated, it's still the only reference available in book form and is *much* easier to read than the actual RFC's themselves. It would be great if the author/publisher updated this book, or another publisher did a similar project. I have found the book to be invaluable.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent reference,
By A Customer
This review is from: Internet Protocols Handbook: The Most Complete Reference for Developing Internet Applications (Paperback)
This book contains extensive information about, appropriately enough, Internet Protocols.I think it could have been made a little better if the author explained a little bit more about how each protocol works - for instance, in the definition of the IRC protocol, all the protocol commands are listed, but things like how to use those commands - which ones come before others, etc. is left up to the RFC, which can be lengthy and hard to follow. Still, overall a great reference.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A valuable reference for Internet protocols.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Internet Protocols Handbook: The Most Complete Reference for Developing Internet Applications (Paperback)
The back cover of this book claims,
"The Internet Protocols Handbook is a perfect solution
for programmers and who need to look up information quickly and
efficiently. It's designed to answer the needs of network protocol
implementors, hardware designers, application programmers, system
administrators, project leaders, students, and instructors."
Leave out"perfect" and it is an accurate description; that's not to say there is any serious impediment or imperfection - I am just leery of words like 'perfect' and 'absolute.' The author maintains a Web site where the latest information is available with any additions or corrections. He also invites bug reports and suggestions for material that might have been included. The book brings together some thirty protocols and related subjects, each dealt with in a common format: Name of the protocol/format, Abbreviation, Status, Specifications, Abstract, Related specifications, See also, Comments, Description, Transport information, Commands, Responses, Protocol state machine, Grammar, and Frame, packet, or message formats. The first six items don't take up much space. Apart from the abstract (five or six lines) they contain references to standards and RFCs. A companion CD contains some 1300 RFCs, and is indexed in such a way as to make location of any particular document quite simple. It is an excellent example of how CD media can be put to efficient use, saving space (and a lot of trees) without any inconvenience to users. The abstracts are a very useful way of identifying the purpose of protocols, especially for those who know what they want to do but are not sure which protocol is appropriate. In some cases there is more information than one is likely to find elsewhere in a single source. For example, a remarkably large number of MIME types are registered and they are all listed here with many ftp sites cited for further information. Under MIB-II all the formal object definitions are recorded, and there is quite extensive data relating to SNMP. Protocols covered are: Address resolution (ARP), Bootstrap (BOTP), Daytime (enables retrieval of current date/time from server), Dynamic host configuration (DHCP), File transfer (FTP), Hypertext transfer (HTTP), Internet control message (ICMP), Internet group management (IGMP), Internet message access (IMAP4), Internet protocol on ethernet networks (IP-E), Internet protocol (IP), Internet relay chat (IRC), Network news transfer (NNTP), Post office (POP3), Simple mail transfer (SMTP), Simple network management (SNMPv2), TELNET, Transmission control (TCP), Trivial file transfer (TFTP), and User datagram (UDP). Non-protocol items include: Computing the Internet checksum, Domain name system, Format of e-mail messages, HTML (as distinct from HTTP), MIB-II, MIME (and registered MIME types), SMTP service extensions, USENET article format, and Well-known ports. The information is well presented, succinct, and readily accessible in this remarkable collection of technical data. It is not an introduction to Internet protocols, but - as the author says - for those "who need to deal with Internet protocols at a technical level". A notable omission is Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), which is covered by RFCs 1889 and 1890; however, the CD contains the RFCs. RTP is likely to become the standard for Internet telephony and is the basis for Netscape's LiveMedia. However, even though RTP specifies a method for the transport of audio data, it has nothing to say about negotiating or initiating a connection. Dave Roberts confines himself to those protocols that are complete and in common use; Internet telephony has quite a way to go before all developers accept a single protocol. Reviewed by Major Keary
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