How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Introduction to Network Programming Interfaces gives a high-level introduction to networking concepts and the topics covered in this book.

Chapter 2, Programming With Sockets describes the socket interface at the transport layer.

Chapter 3, Programming with XTI and TLI describes the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) and UNIX System V Transport Layer Interface (TLI).

Chapter 4, Transport Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping describes the network selection mechanisms used by applications in selecting a network transport and its configuration.