Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version [Paperback]

Douglas E. Comer (Author), David L. Stevens (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0138487146 | ISBN-13: 978-0138487140 | Publication Date: May 10, 1997 | Edition: 1

This volume answers the question "How does one use TCP/IP?"—focusing on the client-server paradigm, and examining algorithms for both the client and server components of a distributed program. KEY TOPICS: It presents an implementation that illustrates each design and discusses techniques like application-level gateways and tunneling. The book also reviews several standard application protocols and uses them to illustrate the algorithms and implementation techniques.

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This volume answers the question "How does one use TCP/IP?"—focusing on the client-server paradigm, and examining algorithms for both the client and server components of a distributed program. It presents an implementation that illustrates each design and discusses techniques like application-level gateways and tunneling. The book also reviews several standard application protocols and uses them to illustrate the algorithms and implementation techniques.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (May 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0138487146
• ISBN-13: 978-0138487140
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More about design than actual code, July 26, 2000

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Valentin Maier - See all my reviews

This review is from: Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version (Paperback)

The book is much more about how to design a service than about TCP/IP. If you want detailed explanations about sockets, you will not find them here. But if you want different scenarios to design a service, this is the book for you. The code snippetes are trivial and poorly explained.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Your Winsock book - by default - if you really need one!, August 2, 2002

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Shankar N. Swamy (Folsom, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version (Paperback)

I decided to write this note after a fourth person asked me about my favorite book for winsock programming.

The answer is, since winsock is built on BSD sockets, and what isn't in BSD sockets but is in winsock is mostly Windows operating system related, your best bet is still the MSDN reference material. That is, if you already have some background in TCP/IP from Unix platform. If not, and you insist on a winsock specific book, there are not that many choices I know of. So this is probably your best bet.

If you are a beginning TCP/IP programmer, this will help. Pretty readable and well organized. But most of the examples in the book are for the type of applications which have already been written and rewritten several times over in the world and you can always find those someplace on the web. I find myself going to back to Richard Stevens volumes and to the RFCs, online documentations at Microsoft and elsewhere. But then, that might be because I started my TCP/IP days from UNIX/SunOS/IRIX.

For beginning TCP/IP programming this can be a good book. There are some paragraphs here and there with sloppy editing - technical and otherwise - but within tolerable limits. And, that is why I did not give it five stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good network programming book, June 1, 2007

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Olivier Langlois "www.OlivierLanglois.net" (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. III Client-Server Programming and Applications-Windows Sockets Version (Paperback)

I want to set the expectations straight. This is not the best Winsock programming book. This book address higher level issues with network programming and it does a very good job at it. It is going to presents the different options for writing a server such as concurrent vs iterative or single thread vs multithread and explains carefully the tradeoff of each option. In my opinion that is the strength and the originality of the book. Another favorite part of the book is the presentation of the complete implementation of a telnet client where the author leads you through all the design and implementation process by explaining you the reasoning behind each decision.

What I did not like about the book is that like the volume 1, too many topics are covered so in many chapters the author barely touch the topic without going in depth into it and I am questioning the value of these chapters as reference.