Mauro, Jim. Understanding the Solaris socket filesystem, http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2377/swol-0202-insidesolaris/pfindex.html.

Note: This article provides a brief, but excellent introduction to the most relevant concepts. (The article is largely generic, despite its title.)

Stevens, W. Richard. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Stevens, W. Richard. UNIX Network Programming. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Sun Microsystems' Network Interface Guide

Microsoft Technology: Networking, Concepts, Tools, Chapter 2.

WinSock 2.2 Specification at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winsock/winsock2/WSAPI22.DOC (a MS-Word document).

WinSock Programmer's FAQ at http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/.

RFC 761 (Transmission Control Protocol) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc761.txt

RFC 862 (Echo) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc862.txt

RFC 867 (DayTime) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc867.txt

RFC 868 (Time Service) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc868.txt

RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122.txt

RFC 1700 (Assigned Numbers) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1700.txt

RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL) at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt