starting book for networking

Hi
I am new to networking, coming from a non Comp science background. I
have done courses on Data structures, OS and oops. Need to know what
will be the starting book for networking, which will be concise and
give the basic knowledge abt this field.

Thanks in advance

On 12 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<(E-Mail Removed) om>, vabby wrote:

>I am new to networking, coming from a non Comp science background. I
>have done courses on Data structures, OS and oops. Need to know what
>will be the starting book for networking, which will be concise and
>give the basic knowledge abt this field.

http://tldp.org/guides.html

* The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Second Edition
version: 1.1
authors: Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson
last update: March 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-400-2
available formats:
1. HTML (read online)
2. HTML (tarred and gzipped package, 690k)
3. PDF (1.5MB)

This book was written to provide a single reference for network
administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced
users alike should find the information they need to cover nearly all
important administration activities required to manage a Linux
network configuration. The possible range of topics to cover is
nearly limitless, so of course it has been impossible to include
everything there is to say on all subjects. We've tried to cover the
most important and common ones. We've found that beginners to Linux
networking, even those with no prior exposure to Unix-like operating
systems, have found this book good enough to help them successfully
get their Linux network configurations up and running and get them
ready to learn more.

That's probably a good place to start. You can also buy the dead tree
version in many book stores - list price is about US$40.

Old guy

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:00:35 -0700, vabby wrote:

> Hi
> I am new to networking, coming from a non Comp science background. I
> have done courses on Data structures, OS and oops. Need to know what
> will be the starting book for networking, which will be concise and
> give the basic knowledge abt this field.
>
> Thanks in advance

Networking for Dummies.

vabby <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I am new to networking, coming from a non Comp science background. I
> have done courses on Data structures, OS and oops. Need to know what
> will be the starting book for networking, which will be concise and
> give the basic knowledge abt this field.

About networking from what standpoint? The inner workings of the
protocols, or how to write a "networked" application?

rick jones
--
firebug n, the idiot who tosses a lit cigarette out his car window
these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway...
feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

> About networking from what standpoint? The inner workings of the
> protocols, or how to write a "networked" application?

I guess i wont be writing network applications for a while now. so a
book for the basic understandings of network protocols will do

I beleive I would not be writing network application for a while, so i
need a book to strengthen my basics and learn abt protocols