I'm absolutely with you on deepening knowledge from books rather than googling. Of course, no one book has it all, but one you might check out is - "TCP/IP Illu

I'm absolutely with you on deepening knowledge from books rather than googling. Of course, no one book has it all, but one you might check out is - "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, 2nd Edition" from Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. It's a great series, by the way, worth checking every book out.