TCP/IP Sockets in C

Michael J. Donahoo teaches networking to undergraduate and graduate students at Baylor University, where he is an assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in large-scale information dissemination and management. Kenneth L. Calvert is an associate professor at University of Kentucky, where he teaches and does research on the design and implementation of computer network protocols. He has been doing networking research since 1987, and teaching since 1991. He holds degrees from MIT, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin.

"Despite my having developed systems software with Sockets and C for 20+ years, I find myself still needing a book like this one. It covers all the subtleties and gotchas that one encounters when writing distributed applications in C with Sockets." --Bobby Krupczak, The Krupczak Organization

• 1 Introduction 2 Basic TCP Sockets 3 Of Names and Address Families 4 Using UDP Sockets 5 Sending and Receiving Data 6 Beyond the Basic Socket Programming 7 Under the Hood 8 Socket Programming in C++