Includes index,appendix and bibliography.

Contents: Introduction -- Motivation and tools -- Network programming and applications -- Data transmission: transmission media -- Local asynchronous communication -- Long-distance communication( carriers, modulation, and modems) -- Packet transmission: packets, frame, and error detection -- LAN technologies and network topology -- Hardware addressing and frame type identification -- LAN wiring, physical topology, and interface hardware -- Extending LANs: fiber modems, repeaters, bridges, and switches -- Long-distance and local loop digital technologies -- WAN technologies and routing -- Connection-oriented networking and ATM -- Network characteristics: ownership, service paradigm, and performance -- Protocols and layering -- Internet working: concepts, architecture, and protocols -- IP: internet protocol addresses -- binding protocol addresses(ARP) -- IP data grams and data gram forwarding -- IP encapsulation, fragmentation, and reassembly -- The Future IP(IPv6) -- An Error reporting mechanism(ICMP) -- UDP: data gram transport service -- TCP: reliable transport service -- Network address translation -- internet routing -- Network applications: client-server interaction -- the socket interface -- example of a client and a server -- naming with the domain name system -- Electronic mail representation and transfer -- IP telephony(VoIP) -- File transfer and remote file access world wide web pages and browsing -- dynamic web document technologies(CGI, ASP, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion) -- Active web document technologies(Java, JavaScript) -- RPC and middleware -- Network management(SNMP) -- Network security -- Initialization(configuration).