From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 4 7:42:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (mailbox.adm.binghamton.edu [128.226.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C131637B423 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 07:42:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22473; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:42:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:39:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: David Johnston Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need really good freebsd socket book In-Reply-To: <10009041448.AA01126@vviuh221.vvi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG UNIX Network Programming, Networking APIs, Sockets and XTI, Volume 1, W. Richard Stevens. -Zhihui On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David Johnston wrote: > > Hi FreeBSD: > > I need a really good book on freebsd (bsd4.4) socket programming. > I need to know how to exchange data between > one program on a computer (p-1) > to another program on a different computer (p-2) > (via TCP/IP). > Then I need to know how to handle many p-1 programs exchanging data > to only one p-2 program (p-1 are clients and p-2 is a server). > For example: how can I have many p-1 programs place their requests > on a data stack until p-2 can process the request and return a result? > > Eventually I need to know how to handle requests in parallel with > threads and different port numbers, but that is a different question, > but it would be nice if the book covered simple to complex designs > with basic socket examples. > > I know it is asking for alot and any help is welcome! > (I don't belong to the list, please respond to djohn@vvi.com) > > Sincerely, > > David Johnston > djohn@vvi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message