From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 18:48:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6207D37BD28 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:48:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12kbru-0003bp-00; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:09:22 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12kbru-0000Fd-00; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:09:22 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:09:22 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP Message-ID: <20000427010922.Q86507@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <39064952.82A80094@tdnet.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39064952.82A80094@tdnet.com.br> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > I have been playing with FreeBSD for the last 16 months. Now i decide it > was the time to get into a serious approach, in order to have a better > understading of what goes behinf the "wall". > > I would like to understand the bolts 'n nuts of how TCP/IP works and my > ideia is to start with: > TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols > > What you like to know from you wizards if that's a good start? > Is it worth buyng this Book? I bought it, and I certainly think it was worth it. I haven't bought volumes 2 or 3 yet. If you want to know about the internals of BSD then the daemon book by McKusick et al is another good one, though I've heard that a FreeBSD version of that book may be around at some point, so you might like to wait. (It will probably be quite a while though.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message