Best Books for TCP/IP And Networking

For those in the IT industry, it is a must to have a sharp and in depth understanding especially for IT admins and managers. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. TCP/IP is the de facto standard for transmitting data over networks. As such, programmers must know all there is to know about it. We are there to help, as always!

1.Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide: Help for Network Administrators

Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide contains all the information you need for low-level network debugging. It provides thorough coverage of the fundamental protocols in the TCP/IP suite: IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP (in its many variations), and IGMP.

2.Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs

In forty-four concise, self-contained lessons, this book offers experience-based tips, practices, and rules of thumb for learning high-performance TCP/IP programming techniques. Moreover, it shows you how to avoid many of TCP/IP's most common trouble spots. Numerous examples demonstrate essential ideas and concepts. Skeleton code and a library of common functions allow you to write applications without having to worry about routine chores.

3.TCP/IP Explained

TCP/IP Explained concentrates on how each protocol works within the Internet Protocol Suite and discusses the addressing, delivery, transport and routing protocols. Many books on this subject concentrate on why protocols are designed in a particular way. This book concentrates on how they actually work. The approach is practical, and the reader can see how network changes affect overall operation.

4.High-Speed Networks TCP/IP and ATM Design Principles

Bestselling author William Stallings presents comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of TCP performance design issues. A high-level overview of cutting-edge network and Intranet design, this book focuses on high-speed technologies like routing for multimedia, how to manage traffic flow, and compression techniques for maximising throughout.

5.TCP/IP: Architecture, Protocols, and Implementation with IPv6 and IP Security

When it comes to teaching computer professionals how to plan for, use, operate, and maintain a TCP/IP network and associated services, Dr Sidnie Feit literally "wrote the Book". Now, fully updated, this book covers the most significant changes in the field including Next Generation Internet Protocol, better known as IPng or IPv6.

6.SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2

This book is the definitive guide to SNMP-based network and internetwork management for network administrators, managers, and designers. Concise, focusing on practical issues, and completely up to date, it covers SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and the most recent SNMPv3, as well as RMON 1 and RMON 2.

7.SNMP: A Guide to Network Management

Written for those who plan, administer and manage networks and for software developers who work in a networked envoironment, this reference presents the ideas behind SNMP and explains the protocols and mechanisms.

8.TCP/IP Network Administration

TCP/IP Network Administration, 2nd Edition is a complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network for administrators of networks of systems or users of home systems that access the Internet. It starts with the fundamentals: what the protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used to move data through the network, and how to set up your network connection.

9.Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 14 Days

This helpful guide teaches TCP/IP through the use of a 14-day tutorial. Handy references with short examples are provided in shaded syntax boxes. Daily lessons, clear examples, and review sections are also included.

10.UNIX Network Programming

This guide focuses on the design, development and coding of network software under the UNIX operating system. Provides over 15,000 lines of C code with descriptions of how and why a given solution is achieved. For programmers seeking an indepth tutorial on sockets, transport level interface (TLI), interprocess communications (IPC) facilities under System V and BSD UNIX. 

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