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Date:      Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:46:56 -0400
From:      John Turner <john@drexeltech.com>
To:        David Johnston <djohn@vvi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        djohn@vviuh221.vvi.com
Subject:   Re: need really good freebsd socket book
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.0.20000904104450.00ab6100@mail.johnturner.com>
In-Reply-To: <10009041448.AA01126@vviuh221.vvi.com>

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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
>
>
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