Network Programming

If you are seriously considering taking this class, it is highly recommended that you start to learn the basics of network programming. A good starting point is to listen to the online course linked below. It is by Jim Kurose, one of the authors of our textbook. 

Useful links

• Sample code
• Sockets
  • Tutorial and faq
    • BSD socket references by Lawrence Besaw
    • Beej's guide to network programming
    • Socket faq
    • Socket API tutorial  for version 4.4 Berkeley Unix (figures containing code are linked)
    • The network book by Yechiam Yemini
  • Source code examples
    • Source code to Steven's UNIX network programming
    • Source code to Steven's UNIX network programming (Second Edition) **
    • Comer's book : source code to Comer's TCP/IP client/server programming book (volume III) v3.bsd.dist.tar.Z
  • Courses
    • Online course: UNIX network programming by Jim Kurose, a 5 hour short course with audio, May 1996
• Threads
  • Getting started with POSIX threads by Tom Wagner and Don Towsley
  • Threads faq
  • A Pthreads tutorial
  • Programming Posix threads
• User space implementation of network protocols
  • Alpine (application-level protocol infrastructure for network experimentation) from University of Washington
  • SCTP reference implementation in user space
• Kernel implementation of network protocols
  • BSD
    • Documentation
      • The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
      • NetBSD documentation
      • FreeBSD developers' handbook
      • FAQ for FreeBSD 2.X, 3.X and 4.X
      • FreeBSD handbook
    • Code
      • NetBSD CVS repository
  • Linux
    • Documentation
      • Linux TCP/IP from USC
      • How to add a new transport protocol to Linux from USC
      • How to add a new protocol to Linux by Wenbin
      • Linux kernel hackers' guide
    • Code
      • Cross-referencing Linux
• Measurement of overhead
  • Measurement on cicada.cs.yale.edu using lmbench on Dec. 29, 2001 by yry@cs.yale.edu.

Last updated: 02/09/2003 11:04:59 -0500