References for Lab 5

• RPI Sockets Tutorial
  A very good introductory tutorial on socket programming for beginners. Presents example TCP client and TCP server code and provides detailed line-by-line explanations. Also presents UDP server and client code, and explains differences in programming styles between TCP and UDP.

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  Presents introductory concepts in socket programming in a very informal and friendly vein. Provides a list of system calls and explains each. Also presents sample server and client code, and presents a simple example of the select system call.

• Using TCP through sockets (from MIT) ( pdf, ps )
  Explains basic system calls used in creating TCP clients and servers. Explains the select call. Provides example client and server code. Warning: some of the code is quite involved and you may want to skip it.

• An Advanced 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial ( pdf, ps )
  More of a detailed reference. Section 0.8, pages 8-10 contain a good explanation of select along with simple example code.

• An Introductory 4.4 BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial ( pdf, ps )
  Includes example code for a simple TCP and UDP server and client. There are a lot of sections you might want to skip.

• Man pages.
  Remember to check the man pages for precise syntax, return values and include files.

• "Unix Network Programming. Networking APIs: Socket and XTI (Volume 1)", W. Richard Stevens, Prentice Hall.
  An excellent reference that I personally find very useful. It covers very introductory concepts suitable for a beginner but also covers more advanced concepts and serves as a good reference.

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  Sanjay Gopinatha Rao
  Last modified: Sun Nov 28 19:08:11 EST 1999