Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] PPP vs. SLIP
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In VERY VERY simple terms: protocol is nothing more than a specified way of soing something. PPP and SLIP describe to a programmer a way of connecting to other computers. the TCP, UDP and IP talk tell us ways of getting sending information back and forth... etc.
the best place to start would be in a general networking book... don't have a title, though.
One very good general book is "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tannenbaum. For writing code "Unix Network Programming" by Richard Stevens can't be beat. (gratuitous plug) Chapter 7 of "Effective Tcl/Tk Programming" shows an interesting approach to defining network application protocols. Hope this helps, Mark. markh@usai.asiainfo.com Mark Harrison, AsiaInfo Computer Networks, Beijing, China -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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