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2013-01-26 03:01 31007650 Anonymous (images.jpg 205x246 8kB)
Would this be a good book to read for sockets and networking basics? Or is it too outdated? From the reviews, it seems like it's the K&R of networking. I'm trying to get into web-connected C++ and such, but want to get a base of real networking knowledge to know what's actually going on.

5 min later 31007758 Anonymous (CCNABooks_Angle.jpg 800x1119 529kB)


5 min later 31007761 Anonymous
Prideful self-bump. I know one of my fellow neckbeards has read this at some point.

7 min later 31007798 Anonymous
>>31007758 Interesting reviews. Will look more into this one. Thanks!

22 min later 31008098 Anonymous
It's a good book. Guess what, tcp/ip hasn't changed much in a long time. Another good book is The TCP/IP Guide. It's a pretty big book. The author has a copy of it all online for free. You can even find a pdf if you have decent google fu. I did a couple years ago. tcpipguide.com/free/index.htm

34 min later 31008327 Anonymous
I read Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach in college. It was decent enough, geared towards an application developer as opposed to an engineer. So if that's what you're interested in I'd recommend it. It covered pretty much everything I needed to know and allowed to get me an internship with AWS development.

35 min later 31008351 Anonymous
>>31008098 >Guess what, tcp/ip hasn't changed much in a long time Guess you haven't heard of IPv6....

43 min later 31008490 Anonymous
>>31008351 December 1998 was a long time ago bro. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2460

44 min later 31008523 Anonymous
>>31007650 >>31007758 This and what the OP posted are miles apart. One is for absolute bottom level network programming, the other is for certification for being an IT network grunt. I haven't read it but I've read his Unix Network Programming book. The topics he covers are extremely low level and most of the writing is mostly explicit walkthroughs of client or server programs using particular protocol features. I can't see his books being very useful unless you intend to do that exact kind of programming.

47 min later 31008575 Anonymous
>>31008523 This. IT faggots act like a CCNA is the be-all end-all for everything. They are fucking losers OP. Also, this book wont teach you network programming.

48 min later 31008597 Anonymous
>>31008490 Just because the specification was written in 1998 doesn't mean anybody was using it and/or knew about it. The hardware to support it still isn't even around. It was not around in books until around 2002+. How young are you?

49 min later 31008613 Anonymous
>>31008575 I'm guessing programmers hate IT yeah?

49 min later 31008630 Anonymous
>>31008597 2002 was along time ago bro.

50 min later 31008636 Anonymous
>>31008613 Programming and IT are two very different things.

50 min later 31008656 Anonymous
>>31008630 >2002 was 11 years ago wat

52 min later 31008707 Anonymous
>>31008656 2013-11=2002 wat

54 min later 31008745 Anonymous
>>31008636 Yes, I know. What I am trying to say is that one group hates the other.

1 hours later 31008942 Anonymous
CCNA here. Don't even act like our course will help you in any way shape or form. Literally 90% of our course material is "how to Cisco IOS". Literally the only thing I pulled away from the whole course was a basic understanding of how routing works. Anyway, you want network programming? I learned from >http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ If you know basic TCP/IP networking concepts, this guide will tell you how to apply that knowledge in ANSI C...if you can't read C, then learn.

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