1Introduction

The purpose of this book is to help the advanced beginner or intermediate network programmer make the move to journeyman, and eventually master, status. The transition to master status is largely a matter of experience and the accretion of specific, if sometimes obscure, bits of knowledge. Nothing but time and practice will provide the experience, but this book can help with the knowledge.

Network programming is a large field, of course, and there are many contenders for the choice of networking technology when we wish to enable communication between two or more machines. The possibilities range from the simple, such as serial links, to the complex, such as IBM’s System Network Architecture. Today it is increasingly clear that ...

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