Nifty IP Docs

Wondering how IP works? Here are some documents to get you started.

The Rutgers documents are copyright © 1988, Charles L. Hedrick.

tcp-ip-intro.txt (text 92K)

an introduction to the Internet networking protocols.

There is also a postscript version. (111K)

tcp-ip-admin.txt (text 176K)

an introduction for people who intend to set up or administer a network based on the Internet networking protocols.

This, too, has a postscript version. (214K)

ien-48.txt (text 21K)

Vint Cerf -- the "Father of the Internet" -- described how it should work in 1978.

rfc2001.txt

Stevens: TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance,Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms

cogavoid.ps

Jacobson, Karels: "Congestion Avoidance and Control" (referenced in RFC 2001)

ipc_tutorial.ps

An Advanced 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial

(tutorial on using Berkeley sockets)

mcast.api.txt

Steve Deering: IP Multicast Extensions

RFC 2775

Internet Transparency

A glimpse at the road ahead.

draft RFC

Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control

Here is a link to the Internic RFC repository (also IETF, STD, and FYI's).

For more avant garde networking, Vinay Kumar's MBONE information web might be interesting.