T3: UNIX Network Programming

Richard Stevens, Consultant

Intended audience: UNIX/C programmers interested in learning how
to write programs that communicate across a network. A basic
familiarity with networking concepts and the TCP/IP protocols is
assumed.

The goal of this course is to provide the knowledge required to
write network programs, and to develop and examine actual
examples. Although the course covers the Berkeley sockets
interface, it focuses on UNIX network programming concepts using
TCP/IP that are applicable to both sockets and TLI.

Course topics will include:

Introduction (10%)

The big picture
Standards
UNIX process handling
Connections and associations
Concurrent vs. iterative servers

Berkeley sockets (90%)

All the socket functions
TCP and UDP client-server examples
Reserved ports
Stream pipes
Multiplexed I/O
Out-of-band data
Raw sockets
Broadcasting
inetd superserver
Constructing Internet addresses
Socket changes with 4.4BSD

Richard Stevens is author of the books “TCP/IP Illustrated”,
“Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment”, and “UNIX Network
Programming”. He received his PhD in the area of image processing
from the University of Arizona in 1982.