Why did you write TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the Unix Domain Protocols?
This book is really three smaller books in one. Part 1 is TCP for Transactions and is a major expansion of Section 24.7 of Volume 1. This presentation of T/TCP is in two pieces: the TCP protocol extensions with examples (Chapters 1-4, which follow the style of Volume 1), and the implementation of T/TCP within the 4.4BSD-Lite networking code (Chapters 5-13, which follow the style of Volume 2). Part 2, HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is an addition to Volume 1, as it describes two application protocols built on top of TCP. One chapter in this part is a detailed examination of the actual packets found on a busy World Wide Web server, showing how varied, and sometimes downright weird, TCP behavior and implementations can be. This is a wonderful example which brings together numerous topics from both Volumes 1 and 2, in the context of an important and popular real-world application. Part 3, the Unix Domain Protocols, is an addition to Volume 2, a
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