Internetworking with TCP/IP: Vol II. ANSI C version - design, implementation and intervals

The authors provide an in-depth look at individual TCP/IP protocols in light of design alternatives, implementation techniques with actual ANSI C code, and the internals of protocol software.

This book uses the widely accepted data-mark interpretation of TCP urgent data, a discussion of the consequences is included. Throughout the book the authors use a working system, which they designed and built using ANSI C, to explain the interaction among protocols, the complete implementation process, and the internal structure.

• Reflects changes in the protocol standards and updates
  the example code to ANSI standard C.
  
• Contains working source code in ANSI C for most protocols
  including TCP, IP, ICMP, IGMP, UDP, ARP, RIP, SNMP, and a significant part of OSPF.
  
• Defines data structures, constants, and code for
  procedures and processes in ANSI standard C.
• Provides active experimentation with a working TCP/IP
  implementation.
  
• Implementation support for the IGMP protocol used for IP
  multicasting and multicast OSPF routing protocol used in applications such as audio and video multicast.
  
• Unique coverage of the Open Shortest path First link-state routing protocol designed by the IETF.
  Shows the latest interpretation of the urgent data processing.
  

Table of contents :

1. Introduction and Overview.

2. The Structure of TCP/IP Software in an Operating System.

3. Network Interface Layer.

4. Address Discovery and Binding (ARP).

5. IP: Global Software Organization.

6. IP: Routing Table and Routing Algorithm.

7. IP: Fragmentation and Reassembly.

8. IP: Error Processing (ICMP).

9. IP: Multicast Processing (IGMP).

10. UDP: User Datagrams.

11. TCP: Data Structures and Input Processing.

12. TCP: Finite State Machine Implementation.

13. TCP: Outut Processing.

14. TCP: Timer Management.

15. TCP: Flow Control and Adaptive Retransmission.

16. TCP: Urgent Data Processing and the Push Function.

17. Socket-Level Interface.

18. RIP: Active Route Propagation and Passive Acquisition.

19. OSPF: Route Propagation with an SPF Algorithm.

20. SNMP: MIB Variables, Representations, and Bindings.

21. SNMP: Client and Server.

22. SNMP: Table Access Functions.

23. Implementation In Retrospect.

Appendix 1: Cross Reference of Procedure Calls.

Appendix 2: Cross Reference of C Structures Used in the Code.

Appendix 3: Xinu Functions and Constants Used in the Code.