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Hemos on Monday February 01, @11:30A M from the it-all-makes-sense-now dept. Doc Technical, one of our highly trained book reviewers, has submitted fo r us Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese's book The Story about Ping. A rare tech nical manual, this is one of the few computer books in the field in whic h the illustrator is as important as the author. To truly understand the glories of Ping, click below to read more.
The Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese , 1933, 1961. Review in a Nutcase: New perspectives on a classic networking utility. reviewed by Doc Technical Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitiv e explanation of one of Unix's most venerable networking utilities. The book describes networking in terms even a child could understand, cho osing to anthropomorphize the underlying packet structure. The ping pack et is described as a duck, who, with other packets (more ducks), spends a certain period of time on the host machine (the wise-eyed boat). At th e same time each day (I suspect this is scheduled under cron), the littl e packets (ducks) exit the host (boat) by way of a bridge (a bridge). Fr om the bridge, the packets travel onto the internet (here embodied by th e Yangtze River). Ping meanders around t he river before being received by another host (another boat). He spends a brief time on the other boat, but eventually returns to his original host machine (the wise-eyed boat) somewhat the worse for wear. For example, with a story set on a river, the authors might have sunk to using that tired o ld plot device: the flood ping. Who Should Buy This Book If you need a good, high-level overview of the ping utility, this is the book. I can't recommend it for most managers, as the technical aspects m ay be too overwhelming and the basic concepts too daunting. Problems With This Book As good as it is, The Story About Ping is not without its faults. There i s no index, and though the ping man pages cover the command line opti ons well enough, some review of them seems to be in order. Likewise, in a book solely about Ping, I would have expected a more detailed overview of the ICMP packet structure. But even with these problems, The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix En vironment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. "), without shaking their head with dee p understanding. For my next review, I will discuss the internals of several well-known ro uting protocols as described in the Old Testament. New contemporary evid ence points to the possibility that Job was a sysadmin on an early MULTI CS system.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17, @01:49PM As a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, I thought I'd tell yo u about the book we used to study the concept of packet forwarding in CS 489 (networks). It was called "Paddle to the Sea", and it was about how a little boy's toy craft passed through the Great Lakes on its way to t he ocean. Along the way, helpful fishermen (routers) put the boat in to the body of water most likely to lead back to the Atlantic.
User Info) Yes, I remember back when I was just learning about pings and packets. My parents didn't want to give me a fun book, instead th ey gave me a technical book.
User Info) I think both the old and new testaments were the first open source docume nts. Also, Moses had RFC 1 , the rules with the capital R The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Search The makers may make and the users may use, but the fixers must fix with b ut minimal clues All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
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