Request for Comments

Request for Comments (RFCs) define the Internet protocols and services that we all use on a daily basis. RFCs are available from the RFC Editor’s web site (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html), as well as from several mirror sites around the world.

The following RFCs were used extensively in the development of this book:

RFC 768

User Datagram Protocol

J. Postel. August, 1980.

RFC 781

A Specification of the Internet Protocol (IP) Timestamp Option

Z. Su. May, 1981.

RFC 791

Internet Protocol

J. Postel. September, 1981.

RFC 792

Internet Control Message Protocol

J. Postel. September, 1981.

RFC 793

Transmission Control Protocol

J. Postel. September, 1981.

RFC 813

Window and Acknowledgment Strategy in TCP

D. Clark. July, 1982.

RFC 815

IP Datagram Reassembly Algorithms

D. Clark. July, 1982.

RFC 826

Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol

D.C. Plummer. November, 1982.

RFC 896

Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks

J. Nagle. January, 1984.

RFC 903

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J.C. Mogul, M. Theimer. June, 1984.

RFC 919

Broadcasting Internet Datagrams

J.C. Mogul. October, 1984.

RFC 922

Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the Presence of Subnets

J.C. Mogul. October, 1984.

RFC 950

Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure

J.C. Mogul, J. Postel. August, 1985.

RFC 1072

Extensions for High Delay

V. Jacobsen, B. Braden. October, 1988.

RFC 1075

Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol

D. Waitzman, C. Partridge, S.E. Deering. November, 1988.

RFC 1108

U.S. ...

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