Reference Links

Reference Books

W. Richard Stevens, "UNIX Network Programming : Networking APIs : Sockets and XTI : Volume 1, Second Edition ", Prentice Hall, Oct 1997, ISBN: 013490012X.
W. Richard Stevens and Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols", Addison Wesley Longman, Dec 1993, ISBN: 0201633469
W. Richard Stevens and Gary R. Wright, "The TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation", Addison Wesley Longman, Jan 1995, ISBN: 020163354X
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jennifer Rexford, "Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement", Addison Wesley, May 2001, ISBN: 0201710889

Useful Network Related Links

Internet General
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Tools
- Ethereal
- Tcpdump
UNIX Programming
Socket Programming Documents
Application Layer

Transport Layer
- The official list of port number assignments
- A list of TCP and UDP ports and services
- Papers on TCP modelling and related topics
- "TCP and Explicit Congestion Notification", Floyd, S., AC M Computer Communication Review, V. 24,N. 5, October 1994, p. 10 -23.
- "TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options", Mathis, M., Mahdav i, J., Floyd, S., and Romanow, A., RFC 2018, April 1996.
- V. Jacobson and M. Karels, "Congestion Avoidance and Control", Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'88 (Palo Alto, CA), pp.314-329, August 1988
- TCP Congestion Control (RFC 2581)
- On TCP Friendly...

Network Layer
- Internet Protocols
- ICMP (RFC 792)
- IGMP v3 (RFC 3376)
- OSPF Version 2 (RFC 2328)
- RIP Version 2 (RFC 1723)
- A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) -- RFC 1771
- Border Gateway Protocol
- Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)
- RIP Version 2 MIB Extension (internet draft)
- DVMRP (RFC 1075)
- Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM)
- Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know - By Chuck Semeria
- C. Q. Yang and Reddy A. A taxonomy for congestion control algorithms in packet switching networks. IEEE Network Magazine, 9:34--45, 1995
- S. Floyd, and V. Jacobson, "Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, V.1, N.4, August 1993, p. 397-413.
Data Link Layer and MAC Sublayer
Network Security
- Pretty Good Privacy
- PGP Timeline
- Crypto History
- An Overview of Cryptography
- RSA FAQ
- Why do you need PGP?
- IP Security Charter
- IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 (RFC 1828)
- IP Authentication Header (RFC 2402)
- Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (RFC 2401)
- Open SSL (for SSL and TSL implementations and related issues)
- Apache SSL
- Kerberos: The network authentication protocol
- IP Spoofing Demystified
- CERT® Advisory CA-1995-01 IP Spoofing Attacks and Hijacked Terminal Connections
- A simple active attack against TCP (by Laurent Joncheray)
- TCP Session Hijacking
- Some TCP/IP vulnerability
- IP spoofing, security, session hijacking

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