Acknowledgments
The first and second editions of this book were
written solely by W. Richard Stevens, who passed away on September
1, 1999. His books have set a high standard and are largely
regarded as concise, laboriously detailed, and extremely readable
works of art. In providing this revision, the authors struggled to
maintain the quality and thorough coverage of Rich's earlier
editions and any shortcomings in this area are entirely the fault
of the new authors.
The work of an author is only as good as the
support from family members and friends. Bill Fenner would like to
thank his dear wife, Peggy (beach 录 mile champion), and their
housemate, Christopher Boyd for letting him off all his household
chores while working in the treehouse on this project. Thanks are
also due to his friend, Jerry Winner, whose prodding and
encouragement were invaluable. Likewise, Andy Rudoff wants to
specifically thank his wife, Ellen, and girls, Jo and Katie, for
their understanding and encouragement throughout this project. We
simply could not have done this without all of you.
Randall Stewart with Cisco Systems, Inc.
provided much of the SCTP material and deserves a special
acknowledgment for this much-valued contribution. The coverage of
this new and interesting topic simply would not exist without
Randall's work.
The feedback from our reviewers was invaluable
for catching errors, pointing out areas that required more
explanation, and suggesting improvements to our text and code
examples. The authors would like to thank: James Carlson, Wu-Chang
Feng, Rick Jones, Brian Kernighan, Sam Leffler, John McCann, Craig
Metz, Ian Lance Taylor, David Schwartz, and Gary Wright.
Numerous individuals and their organizations
went beyond the normal call of duty to provide either a loaner
system, software, or access to a system, all of which were used to
test some of the examples in the text.
The staff at Addison Wesley has been a true
pleasure to work with: Noreen Regina, Kathleen Caren, Dan
DePasquale, Anthony Gemellaro, and a very special thanks to our
editor, Mary Franz.
In a trend that Rich Stevens instituted (but
contrary to popular fads), we produced camera-ready copy of the
book using the wonderful Groff package written by James Clark,
created the illustrations using the gpic program (using
many of Gary Wright's macros), produced the tables using the
gtbl program, performed all the indexing, and did the
final page layout. Dave Hanson's loom program and some
scripts by Gary Wright were used to include the source code in the
book. A set of awk scripts written by Jon Bentley and
Brian Kernighan helped in producing the final index.
The authors welcome electronic mail from any
readers with comments, suggestions, or bug fixes.
Bill Fenner
Woodside, California
Andrew M. Rudoff
Boulder, Colorado
October 2003
authors@unpbook.com
http://www.unpbook.com
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