Best-selling author and leading computer networking authority Douglas Comer builds a comprehensive picture of the technologies behind Internet applications. This edition begins with application programs, including web and chat services, and includes a new chapter on Internet Routing. It offers an incomparable tour from the lowest levels of packet transmission through the highest levels of application software, explaining how underlying technologies provide services and how Internet applications use those services.
Douglas E. Comer is an internationally recognized TCP/IP expert and consultant. As former chairman of the DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board and the CSNET Technical Committee, and member of the Internet Activities Board, he has helped lead the Internet's development, evolution, and growth. He created Prentice Hall PTR's The Complete TCP/IP Training Course.