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Linux and OpenVMS Interoperability: Tricks for Old Dogs, New Dogs and Hot Dogs with Open Systems (Compact Solutions S.)
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Linux and the UNIX Philosophy
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Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, Linux/Posix Sockets Version

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A perfect book for linux network programming

Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol. III: Client-Server Programming and Applications, Linux/Posix Sockets Version
Douglas E. Comer , David L. Stevens , and Michael Evangelista
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0130320714

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A perfect book for linux network programming.......2000-10-01

If you are a linux lover and want to dig into client/server (socket) programming , this book is a good choice.

Compared with Steven's Unix Network Programming, this book is more simply and clearly written. Not like Steven who is an expert in explaining details, Comer is good at giving a sound explanation of the network programming principle both in theory and in practice. You will find nice "Algorithm" part in many of the examples which is a good abstraction of the general problem. So after the reading you will feel comfortable because of the gain in not only knowledge but also the kind of insight you could use toward other problems. As a distinguished professor in computer science, Comer spells out the single word of engineering ,"Simplicity is beauty", again by presenting this clearly written TCP/IP programming book.

Also some most exciting stuff like RTP (realtime transport protocol), Web server programming models are also included in this latest edition of his Vol 3. And as you expected, the full source code of all the chapters is available online.

Building And Integrating Virtual Private Networks With Openswan

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Okay book, but lots of gaps
Complete Guide for Installing and Configuring Openswan

Building And Integrating Virtual Private Networks With Openswan
P. Wouters , and K. Bantoft
Manufacturer: Packt Publishing
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ASIN: 1904811256

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This book is a comprehensive guide to using Openswan for building both basic and industry size, military strength VPNs for medium to very large organizations. Written by the core developers, this practical book is all you need to use Openswan to build any VPN infrastructure you may need. The authors have covered the latest developments and upcoming issues. This book will not only help you build the VPN you need, but also save you a lot of time.

With the widespread use of wireless and the integration of VPN capabilities in most modern laptops, PDA's and mobile phones, there is a growing desire for encrypting more and more communications to prevent eavesdropping. Can you trust the coffee shop's wireless network? Is your neighbor watching your wireless? Or are your competitors perhaps engaged in industrial espionage? Do you need to send information back to your office while on the road or on board a ship? Or do you just want to securely access your MP3's at home? IPsec is the industry standard for encrypted communication, and Openswan is the de-facto implementation of IPsec for Linux.

Whether you are just connecting your home DSL connection with your laptop when you're on the road to access your files at home, or you are building an industry size, military strength VPN infrastructure for a medium to very large organization, this book will assist you in setting up Openswan to suit those needs.

The topics discussed range from designing, to building, to configuring Openswan as the VPN gateway to deploy IPsec using Openswan. It not only for Linux clients, but also the more commonly used Operating Systems such as Microsoft Windows and MacOSX. Furthermore it discusses common interoperability examples for third party vendors, such as Cisco, Checkpoint, Netscreen and other common IPsec vendors.

The authors bring you first hand information, as they are the official developers of the Openswan code. They have included the latest developments and upcoming issues. With experience in answering questions on a daily basis on the mailing lists since the creation of Openswan, the authors are by far the most experienced in a wide range of successful and not so successful uses of Openswan by people worldwide.

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Okay book, but lots of gaps.......2007-03-09

After researching OpenSWAN on the Internet for several weeks, I kept running into this particular title. I figured it would be nice to have a desk reference for this software, as it is not exactly user-friendly, and the few web sites I was frequenting seemed to endorse the book. When the book arrived, my first impression was that it was a lot thinner than I would have expected. And for a good reason: there are not nearly enough configuration examples, and it seemed like an awful lot of steps were assumed as common knowledge. It's not that the book is a terrible book -- far from it. I would certainly recommend it to anyone wanting to attempt OpenSWAN. However, I would caution that it's not going to hold your hand through the setup, and you'll almost certainly need to supplement the book with examples and guides from the Web. Also, it's a bit on the pricey side considering the content (or lack thereof) -- for example, the monstrous "Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide" is comprehensive, enormous, and costs less -- it would have been nice if the Openswan book were a little more like that.

Complete Guide for Installing and Configuring Openswan.......2006-04-01

I bought this book to setup Openswan IPSec on Linux server that would connect to a Watchguard Firebox. Since the Linux distro was Slackware, I got to go through the entire build and setup procedure (which, dispite the author's distain for Slackware, was not as bad as seems). The book covers theory and operation of IPSec in general as well as the details of installing (from binary distributions and source tar balls) and configuring Openswan IPSec and overcoming the bumbs encountered getting it all running.

Included are details and problems of making Openswan work with other IPSec devices, such as Watchguard (in my case), Cisco and Microsoft's IPSec implementation. And when dealing with connecting to Microsoft, they deal with the problems you will encounter and how to work through them.

If you are planning to setup IPSec on a Linux server using Openswan, you'll want this book at your side to help guide you through the entire process.

The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming (Expert's Voice)

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very good overview of linux network programming
Short, yet, Excellent.
An adequate introduction to the subject
Short, pragmatic guide to C network programming
fine grained control

The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming (Expert's Voice)
Keir Davis , John Turner , and Nathan Yocom
Manufacturer: Apress
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ASIN: 1590593227

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Apress' The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming is a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. The book assumes that the reader knows C and has experience developing code on Linux, but provides everything else a programmer needs for real-world network programming, including design, implementation, debugging, and security. Readers will learn about the many kinds of socket types, sessioned vs. sessionless protocols, how to build a custom protocol, encryption, how to use SSL, and how to tunnel data.

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The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming is a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on Linux, but it provides everything else you'll need as a programmer for real-world network programming.

This book is well-suited for you if you are a Windows developer looking to expand to Linux, or if you are a proficient Linux developer looking to incorporate client-server programming into your applications.

This book covers design, implementation, debugging, and security. You will also learn about the many kinds of socket types, sessioned vs. sessionless protocols, how to build a custom protocol, encryption, how to use SSL, and how to tunnel data.

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very good overview of linux network programming.......2005-05-07

I'm still reading this book but I have to say that I'm very impressed with it so far. I was a bit apprehensive at first since it's published by apress which I had actually never heard of (but that's my own ignorance); and I was glad to find that the explanations are clear as day and there is plenty of code to illustrate what has been talked about. I really appreciate the section that covers the different design choices when building a network application. Basically, this book is about getting the job done - and it's very refreshing reading a book that doesn't bore you with useless information.

My only criticism is that there is a bit of inconsistency between the code examples - nothing too big - but it became a bit annoying seeing one C lib function used in a previous example and then another similar function used in the next example.

This book also assumes that you have an intermediate knowledge of the material (it is written on the book itself actually) but at least for me this was not a problem and even if you are not sure about something googling that information would be a piece of cake.

Short, yet, Excellent........2005-02-26

A very insteresting book. I would like to see a more advanced version of this book in the future. It covers the basics of TCP & UDP, and helps you in choosing a suitable design/protocol for your applications, and covers everything related to network programming including security, debugging... Excellent work!

An adequate introduction to the subject.......2004-10-22

This book gives a good general overview of network programming for the Linux operating system along with the C source code used for the implementation. Therefore, individuals who prefer to do network programming in PERL will have to find another book. It is written for the beginner to network programming, but could serve as a general reference for more seasoned network programmers. Due to the straightforward way in which the authors explain the ideas, the book can be rapidly assimilated by those readers who are pressed for time and need to get to the frontiers of the subject with little delay. I only read the first 7 chapters of the book, and so this review will be confined to these.

In chapter 1, the authors give an elementary and general overview of networks. All of the discussion is very easy to understand, and should be helpful for newcomers. In particular, the idea of a port is sometimes a source of confusion for those who are new to networking, sometimes viewing them as being hardware interfaces on network devices. They are rather virtual destinations, and allow a standardization of just what kind of network traffic can be passed to and from a node.

Chapter 2 is an introduction to socket functions, a `socket' being explained as an abstraction for network communication. The Linux operating system uses the Berkeley socket interface (over TCP/IP), and the basic network I/O functions and the notion of a `socket descriptor' are explained in detail. A client/server configuration is used to illustrate the function calls utilized in sockets. Address data structures, such as `sockaddr_in', `linger', and `servent', are discussed. The authors also address the need for specifying the network byte order, so as not have to deal with issues of just how numbers are represented on a particular machine. Code is given for a simple application consisting of a string transfer from server to client.

In chapter 3, the authors concentrate on how to transfer files between a client and server but over the (connectionless) UDP protocol using `datagram sockets.' The discussion clearly points out the differences between TCP/IP and UDP in client/server network communications when doing file transfer. A very brief discussion is given for error handling.

The authors go into more of the details of protocol architectures and methods. An important part of this discussion is the difference between `stateful' servers, which maintain information about the current connections with its clients, and `stateless' servers that do not. A fairly thorough discussion is given on the different methods for maintaining state in a server, using the concept of `sessions'. The role of the HTTP protocol in maintaining a session in a stateless server is outlined, along with the role of `session IDs' for this purpose. The authors also discuss how to maintain state on the client side, using cookies, hidden form variables, and URL parameters.

The next part of the book deals with design issues and decisions and how to develop network programs that function in the client-server environment. Explicit programs are given that illustrate multiplexing, forking, and preforking, the latter of which will alleviate somewhat the costs associated with creating child processes during the initialization of the application. The authors also discuss multithreading, and its advantages in performance versus its disadvantages in stability (due to its use of shared memory). They also give the usual cautions in the use of multithreading, such as the need for mutexes when using global variables shared among threads, and when dealing with servers that must maintain a large number of persistent connections. For readers in the scientific community, a very useful section on how to deal with large amounts of data using nonblocking sockets is given.

Only a cursory discussion is given of "thick" and "thin" clients in this part, probably since the book is about Linux-based network programming. In non-Linux environments, thin-client architectures have become very important in recent years. The authors do discuss issues from both the client-side and the server-side, such as the differences between `monolithic' and `modular' clients, and the use of daemons on network servers. The advantages for using `privilege dropping" are also outlined, this being used in Web server programming for binding ports, and in giving an application superuser status.

Short, pragmatic guide to C network programming.......2004-10-12

This is a straightforward walkthrough of developing network clients and servers in C on Linux. Though many of the same principles could be applied to Windows network programming.

The book starts off with a small chapter on architecture. It quickly becomes chapters of annotated code with a few illustrations thrown in. The text is well written and the the book is short enough to make that format workable.

The last section of the book is dedicated to security. Which I appreciate since C programming is so fraught with security problems.

I recommend this book to those looking to write basic network protocols with C. Though I think it should be said that using a wrapper C++ library, or some higher level applications language for network protocol work will be advisable.

fine grained control.......2004-10-07

I'm not sure about the "definitive" claim in the book's title. But after reading the book, I'm quite willing to grant that the authors have indeed done a thorough job. The book calls to mind the now classic series on Internetworking, by Comer and Stevens in the early 90s. If you've been in this game long enough, you know exactly what I mean. Of course, Comer and Stevens were looking at unix boxes hooked to the Internet.

But, as you can see in this book, linux network programming carries over very closely to those unix versions. And both use what is basically the same IPv4, despite the massive physical buildout of the Internet.

The book's code is unabashedly C. No cute user interface to trip over. It can test your knowledge of C quite well. Partly because the coding and handling of network calls is deliberately low level. Using the book's approach, you can get a fine grained appreciation of how to talk across the Internet. Higher level languages like Java and C# come with network libraries that deliberately hide a lot of this detail. Which is good for many applications. But sometimes you might need the performance and control that this book offers.

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DOS UNIX Networking and Internetworking
Michael J. Burgard , and Kenneth D. Phillips
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SAMBA Unix and NT Internetworking

Samba: UNIX and NT Internetworking
James W. Deroest
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However ardently the Unix community may wish for it, Windows NT (and its successors) aren't going away. Furthermore, the idea of a "Windows shop" that is distinct from a "Unix shop" is unrealistic in many cases. Samba allows Windows NT machines to interact with Unix machines by handling Windows Server Message Block (SMB) calls. Samba: UNIX and NT Internetworking takes a platform-neutral approach to Samba that is suitable for any reader, regardless of greater familiarity with either Windows or Unix. This book will help you get Samba running, but lots of books will do that. This is the one to read if you have a strange Samba problem or you just want to know more about how the server and its clients work.

The conversational writing style in this book is liberally punctuated with lines from configuration files, Windows Registry entries, and tables that list options. The conceptual diagrams are particularly good (if a bit pixilated)--they complement the text rather well. Windows 2000 is taken into particular consideration in this book, and you'll find quite a bit of information about how Samba interacts with it. The notes on Samba's implications for Active Directory are worth reading too. And you'll be pleased to find a copy of Samba 2.0.5.a on the companion CD-ROM, complete with source code and some additional documentation. --David Wall

Topics covered: Samba 2.0.x and its relationship to Unix, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. Installation, configuration, authentication, names, domains, file shares, print shares, administration tools, and troubleshooting all receive attention.

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SAMBA Unix and NT Internetworking.......2000-02-23

I find this book to be a valuable resource... I've been using SAMBA for over two years now, and after I read the book I learned some facts that I had never seen before which were the cause of problems. After reading the book and using the information in it, the problems went away. I recommend this book to any new SAMBA user or any admin interested in SAMBA. I also feel it would be a valuable reference for the more experienced SAMBA users as well...

TCP/IP and NFS: Internetworking in a UNIX Environment

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TCP/IP and NFS: Internetworking in a UNIX Environment
Michael Santifaller
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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TCP/IP and ONC/NFS: Internetworking in a UNIX Environment (2nd Edition)

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TCP/IP and ONC/NFS: Internetworking in a UNIX Environment (2nd Edition)
Michael Santifaller
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Longman
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Handbook of Heterogeneous Computing, 1999 Edition

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Handbook of Heterogeneous Computing, 1999 Edition

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Guide to Internetworking: Interconnecting Diverse Networks : Dos, Macintosh, Unix, Mainframe (Lan Networking Library)

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Guide to Internetworking: Interconnecting Diverse Networks : Dos, Macintosh, Unix, Mainframe (Lan Networking Library)

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Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX(R)

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Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX(R)
Smoot Carl-Mitchell , and John S. Quarterman
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