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Hullo Mike Bilow, hope you are having a nice day!!
21-Nov-97 17:09:55, Mike Bilow wrote to Fernando Ariel Gont
          Subject: Protocols, configurations, and so on .....
 FAG>> Well, I need to get information about communications' protocols,
 FAG>> about networks' configurations (token ring, star (?), and so
 FAG>> on...) and about how are they implemented....
 FAG>> All sources are welcome (FTPs' and WEB pages' addresses, books,
 FAG>> electronic  magazines, and so on...)....
 MB> If you want everything in one book, start with the "LAN Times
Has it got all the topics I named above?
How much is this book (in US dollars)?
 MB> Encyclopedia of Networking," edited by Sheldon, ISBN
 MB> 0-078-81965-2.  There is a new edition scheduled to be released
What will the new edition number be (I mean 2nd, 3rd, and so on)?
If you know how much will the new edition be, please let me know....
 MB> imminently (ISBN 0-078-82333-1); it should be available December
 MB> 1, and bookstores will accept orders for it now
 MB> The definitive standard textbook on the subject, although it is
 MB> hard reading and heavy on mathematics, is "Computer Networks, 3rd
Mathematics? On what subjects? (to calculate transmission speeds and so
on?)
 MB> ed." by Tanenbaum, ISBN 0-133-49945-6.  You should consider it if
 MB> you are pursuing this professionally
I'll consider it....
 MB> If you are looking for extremely low-level technical information,
 MB> you should consider using the Linux source code as a tutorial
I'll get it....
 MB> reference.  Since all of these protocols are actually implemented
 MB> with full publicly available source code, there is almost nothing
 MB> you cannot find out.  However, this sort of thing is not easy to
 MB> do, and it can be very time consuming.  Start with the Linux
 MB> Journal home page, "http://www.ssc.com/linux/"  -- Mike
I'll follow your advices....
Thank you very much! :)
(Excuse me for asking you so many questions about the books, but the fact
is that I can't have a look at the books before purchasing them, because
it is very possible that the bookstore will have to import them for me)
 -=> Yours sincerely, Fernando Ariel Gont <=-
e-mail: FGont@siscor.bibnal.edu.ar
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