TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 The Protocols, 2nd edition

• Luis Marrone ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Journal of Computer Science and Technology, ISSN-e 1666-6038, Vol. 14, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 61-62
• Idioma: inglés

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  • TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 The Protocols, 2nd edition

    Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens

    Pearson Education, 2012

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  • TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1, first edition has been for decades, "the book" for the IP platform. It is undeniably the wide contribution to the academic, research and professional environments. Thousands of undergraduate and postgraduate courses have had this book as required reading. It has also been the mandatory reference for the development and implementation of numerous applications under the IP platform. It stands as the best reference for learning the TCP/IP protocols suite. But…, time goes by; almost two decades have passed since the publication of the first edition and, even the best books concerned with information and communications technology become dated after a time and there is no exception with TCP/IP Illustrated. For that reason we welcome this second edition. It is not a mere update of the first one. The book presents remarkable novelties in the scope and development of the subjects it covers which deserve a detailed explanation. First of all it introduces the particularity of the IP protocol elements in two versions numbers, IPv4 and IPv6 together. Normally in most of the books they are presented separately. This is worth bearing in mind if you are planning a course on the subject. The time savings is substantial. Their contents have been focused on the core protocols, from link level to transport level and auxiliary services like DNS and security. The development of themes keeps the level of detail to which we are accustomed from the first edition and adds greater range covering security issues and possible attacks throughout all them. The examples and the development of the contents allow obtaining a global vision of an IP-based network such as Internet. It's not often to get this view in traditional texts. And last but not least, as in the first edition, many packet traces are used to exemplify details of the protocols. In the present edition, tcpdump is used but only when the points to be illustrated are easily covered by examining the output of a text-based packet capture tool. Anyway they are simplified for clarity. The follow up of tcpdump traces is sometimes cumbersome. In the rest of the other cases, screen shots of Wireshark tool are used. The operating systems used for examples include Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.