Reference? Hardly
This book was a major disappointment. The coverage is very light on sockets, ARP, and many other specifics. This books lives in nomans land: written for a beginner but wants to pass as a reference for experts. It accomplishes neither.Forget about this book or any other TCP/IP book and just get Steven's - TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 : The Protocols or my second choice for advanced study and first choic for a beginner would be: Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol. I: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture.Pass on this one, I wish I had.