Ask HN: Recommendations for Learning TCP/IP?

9 points by vanderreeah 5 years ago | 7 comments

Ben Eater has a 110-minute, 13-part Networking Tutorial covering TCP/IP, ARP, Ethernet (not Eater-net, sadly), OSI layers, routing, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypH19whXTVoG...

x092 5 years ago |

Computer Networks - A Top Down Approach by Kurose Ross gives a very good overview of computer networks and dives deep into each of the layers of the networking stack.

ranc1d 5 years ago |

RFC-1180 TCP/IP Tutorial, very good and clear introduction to TCP/IP

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1180

s1t5 5 years ago |

Genuine related question - what is learning TCP/IP good for? When is it useful to know?

vb6sp6 5 years ago | |

1. When you need to communicate across the network and don't have a library to do it for you.

2. Troubleshooting

3. Insights. Knowing how things work can sometimes give you big insights into potential solutions or pitfalls to avoid

tanelpoder 5 years ago | | |

Additionally, tuning/optimization when dealing with high-latency networks, possibly with more frequent packet loss than you'd get in a local data center (think data replication from Hong-Kong to London in a global bank, etc).

bjourne 5 years ago |

Forouzan, TCP/IP Protocol Suite 4th ed