Chapter 14. Network Protocols
“And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.”
U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee
Introduction
The majority of network-aware computer software leverages the functionality of the TCP/IP protocol stack through high-level interfaces, such as BSD sockets, or frameworks such as Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). Some software, however, has to work with network data at a lower level—a world populated by segments, frames, packets, fragments, and checksums. Looking for security vulnerabilities in lower-level network software is challenging and captivating work. Networking code is a vast topic that can’t be covered adequately ...
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