Volume two of this series, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation, covers the implementation of TCP/IP. Volume three explores TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the Unix Domain Protocols. TCP/IP Illustrated is a complete and detailed guide to the entire TCP/IP protocol suite-with an important difference from other books on the subject.
Nearly two decades have passed since the publication of the first edition of TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1. It continues to be a valuable resource for both students and profe ssionals in understanding the TCP/IP protocols at a level of detail difficult to xxviiiPreface to the Second Edition obtain in competing texts.
The first book in the series, "Volume 1: The Protocols", is cited by hundreds of technical papers in ACM journals. After a brief introduction to TCP/IP, Stevens takes a bottom-up approach by describing the protocol from the link layer and working up the protocol stack. The Second Edition was published on 15 November 2011.
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