Related Books and Software

I started this section after receiving some information from Christian Grimm and Franz Haberhauer on TCP/IP and performance-related literature.

Books

  1. Bach, Maurice, Design of the Unix Operating System (Prentice Hall, 1986). ISBN 0-13201799-7. A German translation is available.

  1. Cockroft, Adrian, Sun Performance and Tuning (Prentice Hall, 1995). ISBN 0-13-149642-5. Regrettably only up to Solaris 2.4, but most information is still valid for current Solaris systems. The Heise Verlag offers a German translation.

  1. Cockroft, Adrian, Sun Performance and Tuning, 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, 1998). ISBN 0-13-095249-4. The improved version on performance and tuning, covers quick tips and Solaris 2.6 as well as Java server technologies.

  1. Stevens, Richard, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Addison Wesley, 1992). ISBN 0-201-56317-7. A German translation is available: Programmieren in der UNIX-Umgebung; ISBN 3-9319-814-8, 1995.

  1. Stevens, Richard, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1—The Protocols (Addison Wesley, 1994). ISBN 0-201-63346-9. A German translation is available.

  1. Stevens, Richard, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2—The Implementation (Addison Wesley, 1995). ISBN 0-201-63354-X. A German translation is available.

  1. Stevens, Richard, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3—T/TCP, HTTP, NNTP, Unix Domain Sockets (Addison Wesley, 1994). ISBN 0-201-63495-3. A German translation is available.

  1. Stevens, Richard, Unix Network Programming, Network APIs: Sockets and XTI; (Prentice Hall, 1998). ...

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