Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs

Index

2MSL (two maximum segment lifetimes), 165–166, 171

Abell, V., 243

abortive release, 119

accept function, 12–13, 35, 43, 87, 128, 213

definition of, 12

ACK

clock, 218

delayed, 175–180, 219, 241–242

acknowledgment/retry mechanism, 18

active close, 166–167, 171–172

address

broadcast, 28–29

classfull, 21–32

hierarchical, 31–32

loopback, 10, 22, 223, 249

physical, 23–27

private IP, 32–34

Address Resolution Protocol, see ARP

AF_INET constant, 7–8, 39, 204–205, 244

AF_INET6 constant, 204–205

AF_LOCAL constant, 7, 244

AF_UNIX constant, 7, 244

Agrawala, A. K., 71, 107

alarm function, 182–183

Albaugh, T., xiv

Albitx, P., 207

algorithm, Nagle, 4, 104, 114–116, 173–180, 219, 239, 241

allocate_timer function, 151

answer record, 229

application skeleton, ...