Books/Resources which explain TCP/IP kernel implementation [closed]

Question

I only know about:

1) Internetworking with TCP/IP: Vol.II, Design, Implementation, and Internals

2) TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 2: The Implementation

but these are quite dated. I am particularly interested in Open source implementations. Any ideas?

EDIT: I found another book

1) TCP/IP Architecture, Design and Implementation in Linux

Answer 1

There's a significant difference between TCP/IP, the protocol specification and various implementations.

• If you want the authoritative source, there's nothing better than the RFC.
• If you want details about Linux's TCP/IP implementation try TCP/IP & Linux Protocol Implementation, or read the source code.
• If you want general information about the TCP/IP protocol I would suggest O'Reilly's TCP/IP Network Administration and IPv6 Network Administration

Answer 2

Unless you are particularly interested in *nix kernel implementations of the TCP/IP stack I would recomend that you take a look at lwIP implementation. The implementation is small enough to grasp without that much problem, and it pretty well documented.

Take a look at the Rx flowchart and the wikia web site.

Answer 3

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System chapters 12 (Network Communication) and 13 (Network Protocols).