title: Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II
        by: Douglas E. Comer + David L. Stevens
 publisher: Prentice Hall 1994
  subjects: computing, networking
     other: 612 pages, bibliography, index

More than half of _Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II_ consists
of source code, so it is basically a commentary on a particular
implementation of the TCP/IP protocols.  The implementation presented
is that of the authors' own Xinu operating system (basically a Unix
variant).  While I'm not generally fond of introducing new systems for
pedagogical purposes, Xinu seems close enough to standard Unix that it
doesn't really matter, and using it does have a couple of advantages.
One is that it is possible to print (and make available for ftp)
the complete source code without copyright problems, the other is
that the Xinu code seems slightly cleaner, more general and easier
to follow than some alternatives (e.g. the Linux code).

_Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II_ is an entertaining way to learn
about TCP/IP implementation, and probably useful as a reference if you
ever need to hack your own.  The reader is assumed to have a basic
understanding of the protocols already.

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Disclaimer: I requested and received a review copy of this book from
Prentice Hall, but I have no stake, financial or otherwise, in its
success.

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%T 	Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume II
%A 	Douglas E. Comer
%A	David L. Stevens
%I 	Prentice Hall
%C 	Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey
%D 	1994
%O 	hardcover, bibliography, index
%G 	ISBN 0-13-125527-4
%P 	xx,612pp
%K 	computing, networking

Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
28 July 1994