From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 4 7:47:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955937B424 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 07:47:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sporto.johnturner.com (w220.z208176108.det-mi.dsl.cnc.net [208.176.108.220]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA72740; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:58:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000904104450.00ab6100@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:46:56 -0400 To: David Johnston , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Turner Subject: Re: need really good freebsd socket book Cc: djohn@vviuh221.vvi.com In-Reply-To: <10009041448.AA01126@vviuh221.vvi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have found any of the books written by Richard W. Stephens to be outstanding, I believe the main book is "Unix Network Programming" or something similar (my copy is at work, so I can't get the exact title or ISBN number for you). http://www.fatbrain.com has them for sure. - John Turner At 10:48 AM 9/4/00, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message