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gawkinet: Introduction

 
 1 Networking Concepts
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 This major node provides a (necessarily) brief introduction to computer
 networking concepts.  For many applications of 'gawk' to TCP/IP
 networking, we hope that this is enough.  For more advanced tasks, you
 will need deeper background, and it may be necessary to switch to
 lower-level programming in C or C++.
 
    There are two real-life models for the way computers send messages to
 each other over a network.  While the analogies are not perfect, they
 are close enough to convey the major concepts.  These two models are the
 phone system (reliable byte-stream communications), and the postal
 system (best-effort datagrams).
 

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· Stream Communications       Sending data streams.
· Datagram Communications     Sending self-contained messages.
· The TCP/IP Protocols        How these models work in the Internet.
· Making Connections          Making TCP/IP connections.
 

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