From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 02:20:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BCA16A403 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 02:20:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748DC43D46 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 02:20:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from ip02.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.10]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J6J005UCFPGV0A1@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:17:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO dwpc.dwlabs.ca) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip02.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:20:21 -0300 Received: from dwpc.dwlabs.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k932JwpO026247; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:19:58 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: (from duane@localhost) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k932Jwxf026246; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:19:58 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 23:19:57 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <6bcc7a470609302112g23ca6e34u6e7af43353f78285@mail.gmail.com> To: Rob Message-id: <20061003021957.GA25919@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AR4FAHNlIUWBTg X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,246,1157338800"; d="scan'208"; a="857390832:sNHT21983188" References: <6bcc7a470609302112g23ca6e34u6e7af43353f78285@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good networking books for a beginner? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:20:41 -0000 On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:12:27AM -0400, Rob wrote: > Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about > networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the 'basics' > but would like to dig in a little deeper. > > Thanks, > rob An online article that I found quite helpful was Daryl's TCP/IP Primer http://www.ipprimer.com/overview.cfm I was quite surprised by how much detail was there when I started actually following along with its tutorial style. Best Regards, Duane Whitty