Understanding Linux Network Internals: Guided Tour to Networking on Linux
Understanding Linux Network Internals by Christian Benvenuti
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0596002556 | EPUB, PDF | 400 pages | 6 Mb
Unix Operating System
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0596002556 | EPUB, PDF | 400 pages | 6 Mb
Unix Operating System
This book clearly explains the underlying concepts and teaches you how to follow the actual C code that implements it. Although some background in the TCP/IP protocols is helpful, you can learn a great deal from this text about the protocols themselves and their uses. And if you already have a base knowledge of C, you can use the book's code walkthroughs to figure out exactly what this sophisticated part of the Linux kernel is doing.
Part of the difficulty in understanding networks – and implementing them – is that the tasks are broken up and performed at many different times by different pieces of code. One of the strengths of this book is to integrate the pieces and reveal the relationships between far-flung functions and data structures. Understanding Linux Network Internals is both a big-picture discussion and a no-nonsense guide to the details of Linux networking.
Topics include:
Key problems with networking
Network interface card (NIC) device drivers
System initialization
Layer 2 (link-layer) tasks and implementation
Layer 3 (IPv4) tasks and implementation
Neighbor infrastructure and protocols (ARP)
Bridging
Routing
ICMP