Network Sockets Programming - Course Syllabus

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This short module is intended for C programmers who wish to write network programs which use the Socket Library first provided with 4.2BSD Unix. This is now the de-facto standard for Linux and Unix and has been adopted as a standard by Microsoft as Winsock 1.1.

Introduction

Origins

Availability

Sockets

Operation

Socket types

Domains

Name Binding

Closing Sockets

I/O Multiplexing

Client/Server Models

Usage

Connection Based Services

Client and Server actions

Handling Out of Band Data

Connectionless Services

Client and Server actions

Data Transfer

Network Database

Operation

Host Information

Network Information

Protocol Information

Service Information

Notes

1. Participants receive copies of all slide material.
2. The Course is regularly updated to include new material.
3. Emphasis on different aspects will change according to the participants interests.
4. The Course is applicable to users of systems either based on Unix or Windows (using Winsock 1.1) or other systems which incorporate TCP/IP Network Utilities.
5. The length of the Course is normally half to one day.