TCP/IP and Linux Protocol Implementation: Systems Code for the Linux Internet (Networking CouncilSeries)
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JON CROWCROFT is Marconi Professor of Communications Systems at the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of IETF, which provides oversight for Internet standards. He is also a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
IAIN PHILLIPS is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University, where he was previously a Research Fellow in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.

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List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1. Overview of the Internet Protocols

1.1 Roadmap

1.2 Introduction

1.3 Protocols

1.4 Protocol Stacks

1.5 Security

1.6 Performance

1.7 Summary

2. Introduction to the Linux Operating System

2.1 Roadmap

2.2 What Is an Operating System?

2.3 What More Could You Ask For?

2.4 The Source Code Organization

2.5 A Day in the Life of a Process

2.6 A Day in the Life of a File

2.7 A Day in the Life of an Operating System

2.8 A Day in the Life of a Device Driver

2.9 A Day in the Life of a Kernel Module

2.10 SMP

2.11 A Day in the Life of Time

2.12 Summary

3. The Brief Life of a Packet

3.1 Roadmap

3.2 TCP Example

3.3 DNS/UDP Example

3.4 RTP/UDP (Multicast) Example

3.5 Three Views of the Traces of Ping

4. Interprocess Communication

4.1 Roadmap

4.2 Socket API

4.3 The Actual Socket API

4.4 Using the Socket API

4.5 Summary

5. Protocol Implementation Framework

5.1 Roadmap

5.3 Bottom Up: Interrupts, DMA, and So On

5.4 Device Level, Bottom Up, One Level Up

5.5 Top Down: Socket Glue Level

5.6 Sideways: A Day in the Life of a Socket Buffer

5.7 A Day in the Life of a Protocol Control Block

5.8 Summary

6. Infrastructure Protocols

6.1 Roadmap

6.2 IP

6.3 Addressing

6.4 Network-Level Debugging-ICMP

6.5 Group Management-IGMP

6.6 NATs, Tunnels, and Other Hacks

6.7 Network Address Translation

6.8 Tunnels

6.9 IP version

6.10 Summary

7. Transport

7.1 Roadmap

7.2 Introduction

7.3 UDP-User Datagram Protocol

7.4 TCP-Transmission Control Protocol

7.5 Management

7.6 TCP vs. UDP

7.7 RTP-Real-Time Protocol

7.8 Writing a New Transport Layer

7.9 Summary

8. Routing

8.1 Roadmap

8.2 Introduction

8.3 Forwarding Table Computation

8.4 Multicast

8.5 QoS Routing

8.6 Routing Table Construction

8.7 Host Routing

8.8 Managing IP-Level State Information-the IPCommand

8.9 Summary

9. Forwarding

9.1 Roadmap

9.2 Introduction

9.3 Mixing Traffic onto the Wire

9.4 Elastic and Inelastic Applications-Tolerance for Variation?

9.5 Packet-Forward Scheduling and Queue Management

9.6 Queuing Disciplines

9.7 Queue Management

9.8 Linux Forwarding Treatment Architecture

9.9 The Classifier Code

9.10 Queuing Discipline

9.11 Scheduler Framework

9.12 Class-Based Queuing

9.13 Queue Management

9.14 Managing Forwarding Treatment Information-the TC Command

9.15 BSD

9.16 Summary

10. Security

10.1 Roadmap

10.2 Security Scenarios

10.3 Netfilter

10.4 IPSec

10.5 SSL

10.6 Summary

Afterword

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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