Rating: 
Summary: An excellent book
Review: A worthy addition to Stevens. Contains a quick overview of TCP/IP system and then a bunch of "tips", every one very useful. If you program sockets, get this book without thinking, it's well written, hugely useful, nicely done graphically, in the style of "TCP/IP Illustrated", nothing flamboyant but all very relevant and illustrative. A very pleasant book to have. About this review below maligning this book for its lack of the Windows concentration: it's about standard TCP/IP, and it's plenty good for Windows inasmuch as Windows' TCP/IP adheres to the standard, so carping about Windows anything is completely unjustified here.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent book for intermediate Network Programmer
Review: Every book has target, and that's important for rating books.
As an intermediate programmer(my major was Computer Science but I don't have much experience in real field yet. I admit it.), this book was a great help to me. I have read Mr.Comer's "Internetworking with TCP/IP" and Mr.Steven's "Unix Network Programming". Definitely, those books are good references. But usually, readers of those big books can miss some important points.
While reading this book, I got back to those books and re-read many pages which I have missed their real meaning. So, that's the virtue of this book. This book is quite concise and clear about Network features(especially TCP/IP) which can be easily overlooked. Author said he would deal with both UNIX(LINUX) and Windows platform, but he didn't follow his promise well. This book is quite concentrated for Unix, but that's not so serious defect. A great deal of this book's technics are quite helpful regardless which platform you work.
Rating:
Summary: only way for me to learn C/C++ sockets
Review: I couldn't find any good examples or documentation on the web that made sockets easy enough for me to implement in C/C++. But Snader's book explained it thoroughly and moreover simply enough for me to understand and emulate, and lo and behold, I had my first socket program running on windows and *nix in about a week. It also does a great job of introducing protocols and TCP/IP/UDP specifically. I have only read the first half but I am sure the second half is just as good. That is all I needed, since I just needed an understanding of sockets to get going. I highly recommend this book to intermediate programmers who want to get into network programming and networking in general.
Rating:
Summary: Great Help!
Review: I have just completed a major corporate network programming application. Now I am trying to iron out those network problems you only get when large volumes of REAL data start coming through your application. This book has helped me solve all problems so far. It has also allowed me to make my applications more error tolerant and robust, particularly when erroneous data is allowed through to my apps. I NOW have some really great tools in my network programming armory thanks to this book. It has also removed any uncertanties in my mind about TCP/IP. Great book, get it, read it, apply it!
Rating:
Summary: Very, very good.
Review: I'll make it short: this book is on the par with Stevens' TCP/IP and Unix Programming books. If you got the money to spare, buy it. Addison Wesley have always been credible, and they get better and better. Kudos to the author, of course--that is an achievement.
Rating:
Summary: Perfect to pick up the loose ends
Review: If you already have the fundamentals of TCP/IP programming, but want the loose ends tied, then this is the book.
Rating: 
Summary: Strong recommended.
Review: It's easy to write TCP/IP communications into an application using sockets, but deceptively difficult to write it correctly. As anyone who has done TCP/IP development can tell you writing good, solid, high performance TCP/IP code is no easy task. It may look easy because the sockets API is fairly simple to use, but don't be fooled. This book goes a long way towards helping you write high quality TCP/IP code. The book presents 44 tips, which are a treasure trove of information, on the dos and don'ts of TCP/IP development. If you do TCP/IP development at a professional level this book is a must have. I hope this helps J.
Rating: 
Summary: Not for Windows people
Review: The book is very useful for TCP/IP programmers especially in Unix environment. It presents the core programming techniques very clearly. However, running the codes in Windows platform is very hectic and time consuming. The author mentions the words Windows, winsock very weakly in the book just to get the attention of also Windows user, I believe.
Rating:
Summary: Useful book
Review: The only issue is source code style.
I appreciate the pure clear C code or C++ wrappers.
The book contains non user friendly C code:( The tips are great. I wish all books to be such helpful.
Rating:
Summary: buy it even if you own Stevens' book
Review: This book has a perfect balance of brevity and depth. Anything shorter would have been superficial, anything deeper would begin to compete with Stevens' Unix Network Programming (and lose). As is, this book fits very well for developers who do occasional TCP/IP development, but still need to develop reliable, industrial-grade software.
| 
