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peterson@csc.ti.com (Bob Peterson) wrote:

>|> as much information as the other books. For TCP/IP, I highly recommend
>|> the Steven's books (I think that's the author). My copy is out on loan
>|> right now, so I can't give an ISBN. It is a very high-end, technically
>|> detailed overview of the TCP/IP stack and many of the application
>|> level  protocols which use it.

>  You refer to the books by Douglas Comer, which I also strongly
>recommend.  These are not light-weight texts, but rather books for
>people who really want to understand networking in depth.  David
>Stevens coauthored Volume 3.  There are four books in the series, all
>published by Prentice-Hall:

Nope, I refer to a series of books published by Richard Stevens. The
one book I have is still out on loan, so I still can't give detailed
info. The same publisher prints several well regarded deep UNIX texts
though, and it's not Prentice Hall.

Not to say that the ones you recommend aren't good as well, but I
remembered the authors name when he corrected me on a detail of the
UDP protocol in a UNIX newsgroup recently...

>|>                                 Of course, no overview of networking is
>|> complete without a book on the OSI networking architecture.
>|> Unfortunately, I don't remember a good one to suggest.

>  How about Tannenbaum's textbook?  That one seems to be used a _lot_ as
>a course text.

That sound extremely familiar and may very well be the one used where
I went (missed the course, otherwise I'd have the book).

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