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ADDISON-WESLEY ANNOUNCES THIRD EDITION OF W. RICHARD STEVENS' CLASSIC TEXT,
UNIX(r) NETWORK PROGRAMMING:  THE SOCKETS NETWORKING API, VOLUME 1

Fully Updated & Revised by Networking Programming Experts Bill Fenner
and Andrew Rudoff

Upper Saddle River, NJ (November 25, 2003): Addison-Wesley, the leading
publisher of advanced technology books, announces the release of the THIRD
EDITION of UNIX(r) Network Programming: The Sockets Networking API, Volume
1, Third Edition, considered the definitive text on UNIX networking APIs,
originally authored by W. Richard Stevens and revised by Bill Fenner and
Andrew Rudoff.  (Addison-Wesley, (2004, ISBN 0131411551).

Building on the legendary work of Rich Stevens (first volume of UNIX
Network Programming published in 1990; second edition published in 1998),
co-authors Fenner and Rudoff, two leading network programmers, have updated
this third edition with all the newest programming techniques and
protocols, such as IPv6 and new debugging techniques.

This book, in keeping with the first two editions, is appropriate both as a
tutorial on network programming for relative beginners and as a reference
for experienced programmers. All examples contained within the text are
actual code tested on UNIX systems, although most of these examples are
largely operating system-independent.

As a sampling of the new additions covered within this third edition: 
* POSIX Single UNIX Specification Version 3
* IPv6 APIs (including updated guidance on IPv6/IPv4 interoperability)
* The new SCTP transport protocol
* IPsec-based Key Management Sockets
* FreeBSD 4.8/5.1, Red Hat Linux 9.x, Solaris 9, AIX 5.x, HP-UX, and Mac OS
  X implementations 
* New network program debugging techniques
* Source Specific Multicast API, the key enabler for widespread IP
  multicast deployment 

Bill Fenner is Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs in Menlo
Park, CA, specializing in IP multicasting, network management, and
measurement. He is one of the IETF's Routing Area Directors, responsible
for approving all routing-related documents that get published as RFCs.

Andrew M. Rudoff, Senior Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, specializes
in networking, operating systems internals, file systems, and high
availability software architecture.


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