This comprehensively revised edition reflects the latest developments, making it the most thorough and authoritative guide to UNIX networking APIs. It is an ideal text for computer science students for a course in network programming as well as a useful reference for experienced programmers. The book describes how to write own network programs using an application program interface or API. Two APIs-Sockets and XTI-are covered. While the XTI coverage is smaller than that of sockets, much of the socket coverage describes concepts that apply to XTI as well-just the function names and arguments change. The new edition also offers an abundance of practical examples and exercises and includes several new topics such as: • IPv4/IPv6 interoperability (Chapter 10) • protocol-independent name translation (Chapter 11) • routing sockets (Chapter 17) • multicasting (Chapter 19) • threads (Chapter 23) • IP options (Chapter 24) • datalink access (Chapter 26) â€...
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