Covers over 30 protocols, including new and forthcoming ones. Describes packet and message formats for the most popular protocols. Is easily accessed and cross-referenced; you'll quickly find exactly what you're looking for. Contains a guide for those confusing error messages that stump you. Reveals the Internet standard process from initial proposal of a protocol to its acceptance as an Internet standard.
About the Author
Dave Roberts (Fremont, CA) is an expert on communications software development, and the author of The Coriolis Group's Developing for the Internet with Winsock and PC Game Programming EXplorer. He is currently marketing manager with ZeitNet, Inc./Cabletron Systems, a developer of high-speed networking technology.