Is there like a long form intro somewhere that starts at a packet driver and a virtual machine and takes you through the internet stack that way? I'm not sure

Is there like a long form intro somewhere that starts at a packet driver and a virtual machine and takes you through the internet stack that way? I'm not sure if that's stupid, but I've done a lot of things with raw ethernet frames, and used LWIP, but...I'd like to develop my own someday, just to "know" how it's all really supposed to work.