Ask HN: Book Recommendation about Networking

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by kureikain • 6 years ago

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Hi,

I want to understand more about networking, tcp/ip, dns protocol. thing about multi cast, nat traversal, how to implement my own toy network stack and the like, lan segmenting, vlan...

Those concepts come up a lot in my work and I just google the hell out of it and connect the dot here and there to figure them out but I lacked a fundamental/core understanding...

I want to fill that gaps in my knowledge by going to books instead of reading articles/blogs

Any good book out there for this?

Thanks.

ivars• 6 years ago

I'm absolutely with you on deepening knowledge from books rather than googling. Of course, no one book has it all, but one you might check out is - "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, 2nd Edition" from Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. It's a great series, by the way, worth checking every book out.

jlgaddis• 6 years ago

Routing TCP/IP, Vols. 1 and 2 are basically the networking bible. You may not necessarily want to go that far into networking, though!

runjake• 6 years ago

This is the correct answer.

atsaloli• 6 years ago

I’ve heard good things about https://nostarch.com/tcpip.htm

brudgers• 6 years ago

Computer Networks, Tanenbaum is a standard introductory textbook that's gone through multiple editions over nearly thirty years. It might not be for you, but it's proably a good place to start figuring out what is for you because a lot of what you encounter will be paraphrasing parts of it or using it's abstractions.

And because it's been used so heavily and printed so long, used older editions abound. Which are good enough to get started because TCP/IP and Ethernet and lots of other things are still mostly the same with new stuff layered on top.

scott31• 6 years ago

Not a book but PG's essays are great sources http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

Many of them touch on subjects like network effects on the startup scene

semicolonandson• 6 years ago

Very very worthwhile investment of your time.

I dived into the topic two years ago using Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networking-Top-Down-Approach...)

As someone with about ten years experience in web-dev, but no formal CS education, I found the difficulty level to be just right.

tjalfi• 6 years ago

Here are a couple recommendations.

Interconnections - Radia Perlman. This is a good introduction to bridging and routing.

Networking Algorithmics - George Varghese. This has a lot of interesting content about removing bottlenecks from network devices. I would appreciate recommendations for a newer book with similar content.

CloudNetworking• 6 years ago

I would recommend Ed Harmoush's materials in https://www.practicalnetworking.net/

Ask HN: Book Recommendation about Networking

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