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Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning TCP/IP?
- s1t5 6y agoGenuine related question - what is learning TCP/IP good for? When is it useful to know?
- vb6sp6 6y ago1. When you need to communicate across the network and don't have a library to do it for you. 2. Troubleshooting 3. Insights. Knowing how things work can sometimes give you big insights into potential solutions or pitfalls to avoid
- tanelpoder 6y agoAdditionally, tuning/optimization when dealing with high-latency networks, possibly with more frequent packet loss than you'd get in a local data center (think data replication from Hong-Kong to London in a global bank, etc).
- bjourne 6y agoForouzan, TCP/IP Protocol Suite 4th ed
- x092 6y agoComputer Networks - A Top Down Approach by Kurose Ross gives a very good overview of computer networks and dives deep into each of the layers of the networking stack.
- gabrielsroka 6y agoBen Eater has a 110-minute, 13-part Networking Tutorial covering TCP/IP, ARP, Ethernet (not Eater-net, sadly), OSI layers, routing, etc. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypH19whXTVoG3oKSuOcw_XeW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypH19whXTVoG...
- ranc1d 6y agoRFC-1180 TCP/IP Tutorial, very good and clear introduction to TCP/IP https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1180 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1180