Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking?

• hpbn.co

  3 289 10.0 HTML

  High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)

• computer-networking-study

  1 82 0.0 Go

  Learning computer networking through projects and readings

When I was going through this, I found it helpful to re-implement stuff in code as I was learning. I compiled resources on it in this repo for my own benefit: https://github.com/aos/computer-networking-study

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• ixy

  2 1,122 0.0 C

  A simple yet fast user space network driver for Intel 10 Gbit/s NICs written from scratch

Once you're past the fundamentals, if find yourself interested in high-performance networking, I recommend looking into userspace networking and NIC device drivers. The Intel 82599ES has a freely available (and readable!) data sheet, DPDK has a great book, ixy [1] has a wonderful paper and repo. It's a great way to go beyond the basics of networking and CPU performance. It's even more approachable today with XDP – you don't need to write device-specific code.

[1] https://github.com/emmericp/ixy

• book

  4 3,008 7.5 Python

  Computer Networks: A Systems Approach -- Textbook (by SystemsApproach)

  

It seems they have put an older edition of the book (5.4) as a free download from GitHub: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/blob/format/publishe...

• mininet

  16 5,170 5.2 Python

  Emulator for rapid prototyping of Software Defined Networks

  

mininet [1] can be used to emulate networks on a single computer. It is used to teach networking concepts.

1. https://github.com/mininet/mininet

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