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From: fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP and X.25 Books
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Date: 14 Jul 90 06:26:16 GMT
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In article <1395@chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>Another book, which just focuses upon the TCP/IP protocol standards is:
>
>	Handbook of Computer-Communications Standards, Volume 3
>	William Stallings
>	Howard W. Sams & Company, 1987
>
>This book has a chapter dedicated to each of the most widely use portions
>of the DARPA Internet Protocol Suite:  Internet Protocol, Transmission
>Control Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,
>and TELNET.  This one costs $35.  It's a very concise book.  It's the
>first thing I read on TCP/IP protocols, and I feel I walked away with a
>reasonable grasp of the basics.
>

Note that second editions of this set have appeared; the one I have seen
(the above volume) expands upon the more recent developments in the Internet
protocol areas (I have only paged through it, but ARP & EGP are two that
come to mind as being either expanded or added).

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--Frank Malczewski                        (fdm@wlv.imsd.contel.com)
					  (malczews@nunki.usc.edu)