Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Definitive TCP, IP, UDP
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.200705.21169@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov6.043559.5133@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> <BZS.90Nov6100729@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 20:07:05 GMT

In article <BZS.90Nov6100729@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>>...  Is there a document out
>>there (say an RFC in preparation) that describes exactly how all parts of the
>>protocol work (RTT calculations, options, etc.)? How about for IP and UDP?
>
>Sounds like you want Doug Comer's textbook, "Internetworking with
>TCP/IP", Prentice-Hall. Should be available at any college bookstore.

Uh, Barry, had a hard night last night? :-)  Comer is a good textbook, but
it is not in any way, shape, or form the sort of reference manual that he
is asking for.  Too many things are alluded to but not discussed.  (I've
heard there is a second edition, which may have improved the situation,
but I'd still be surprised if it was what he's after.)  It doesn't even
discuss the details of closing a TCP connection, for example.

As far as I know, there is no substitute for wading through lots of RFCs.
The Host Requirements and Protocol Standards ones are the places to start.
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