Unix Network Programming: The Sockets Networking API

By Ethan Thorpe

This is THE guide to UNIX network programming APIs. Whether you write Web servers, client/server applications, or any other network software, you need to understand networking APIS-especially sockets in greater detail than ever before. You need UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, Third Edition. In this book, the Authors offer unprecedented, start-to-finish guidance on making the most of sockets, the de facto standard for UNIX network programming with APIs - as well as extensive coverage of the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131411551
• ISBN13: 9780131411555
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 991 Pages
• Weight: 3.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

School Text

I was required to use this book for my networking programming class. I'm in my senior year of college and having quite a bit of experience with textbook, I can say with confidence that this is one of the better textbooks out there. You can definately teach yourself network programming with this book and the accompanied source examples.... makes a handy reference guide as well. Worth the investment for Computer Science Engineers...

What more needs to be said?

Im an Australian final year undergrad CS student, we used this as the text for a course 'Network Programming'. This book is very well written and explains not only the process of writing networked applications using C, but also how the actual protocols such as TCP, UDP etc work. This gives you a solid understanding of the 'whys' of network programming and not just the 'hows'. Overall this is a great book for those wanting...

current classic

This book, as with all other Stevens books, can be used as either a tutorial or reference. The depth of information here is unparalleled. I continue to be impressed with the detail in this book. Fenner and Rudoff have done an outstanding job of maintaining quality and tradition this invaluable reference. Avid Stevens fans will not be disappointed. 3rd edition updates include: *IPv6 added *POSIX 1003.1-2001 added...

Continuing the work of a legend in the field of CS

It would be difficult to put value on a book that has been a classic text and a reference in academia and in the real world in the context of Network Programming for over a decade. Richard Stevens published the ever-popular Unix Network Programming [UNP] back in 1990, followed the second edition in 1998. With a dedication to the memory of R. Stevens, the UNP book found itself two new authors, Bill Fenner and Andrew M. Rudoff,...

A New Classic

This will become the new classic of Unix Network Programming. When I first heard that there was a new edition, I was afraid that the classic would be destroyed. Although it is quite different and much of it has been done by "et al", it turns out to be quite good.Initially I did a quick scan and immediately saw some things missing (like FTP). However, after reading the book and realizing how infrequently I had referenced the...