Resources on Networking

Resources on Networking

[krishna]

Hi All,

I am Interested in _understanding_ Networking.

Can any one tell me the resources of Networking.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya

Re: Resources on Networking

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:19:15 +0530, krishna said:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am Interested in _understanding_ Networking.

"To understand the network, you must the network.." 

If you want to *understand* the network, I'd suggest starting off with a very
heavy dose of math, in particularly emergent systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence has a lot of good references.

However, you probably meant "understanding how to get the network to do something
useful for me", which is a totally different question....

> Can any one tell me the resources of Networking.

Not a Linux kernel issue, but I'll be nice (even sorted in likely order
of usefulness for somebody so in need of direction):

0) A good book on C. (Yes, we start at 0. C, remember?)

1) Stevens "Unix Network Programming"

2) Douglas Comer "Internetworking with TCP/IP (Volume I): Protocol and Architecture"

3) http://www.ietf.org/rfc - in particular, you want RFCs 768, 791, 792, 793, and 1149

4) find /usr/src/linux/net -type f | xargs more


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Re: Resources on Networking

[krishna]

Hi Valdis,

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya