See also Communication Debugging - Status, tracing, and debugging communications and protocols.

Java Network Programming FAQ

alt.winsock FAQ

[comp.unix.programmer] Unix-socket-faq for network programming

Winsock Programmer's FAQ (updated 1999.06.27)

ANTS: Network Services Without the Red Tape ( David Wetherall, John Guttag, David Tennenhouse ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-04)

User-Level Network Interface Protocols ( Raoul A.F. Bhoedjang, Tim Rühl, Henri E. Bal ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-11)

Evolution of the Virtual Interface Architecture ( Thorsten von Eicken, Werner Vogels ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-11)

Making Network Interfaces Less Peripheral ( Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Mark D. Hill ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-010)

Using Genetic Algorithms to Design Mesh Networks ( King-Tim Ko, Kit-Sang Tang, Cheung-Yau Chan, Kim-Fung Man, Sam Kwong ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-08)

Toward the Information Network ( Hanafy Meleis ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1996-010)

nc(1) - Arbitrary tcp and udp connections and listens. {oss}

ipf(1) - alters packet filtering lists for IP packet input and output {oss}

ipftest(1) - test packet filter rules with arbitrary input. {oss}

ipnat(1) - user interface to the NAT {oss}

ipsecadm(1) - interface to setup IPSec {oss}

mlan-1.03 - API for Dallas Semiconductors 1-wire lan devices

pm3-net-1.1.15 - Low-level networking libraries for the PM3 Modula-3 distribution

nc-1.0.1 - Network aware cat

datapipe-1.0 - A simple program to bind a local port and connect it to a remote socket

ncat-1.2.0 - Like cat, but input or output is via a TCP/IP socket

netsed-0.01 - Alters the contents of packets in real-time

suckblow-1.1 - Two companion utilities for transferring data over a TCP socket

tcpcat-1.1.0 - A simple utility for sending/receiving data over a TCP or a Unix-domain socket

relay-1.10 - TCP proxy server with telnet, ftp, finger client wrappers

netcat-1.10 - simple utility which reads and writes data across network connections

openldap-1.2.13 - Open source LDAP client and server software

sockdemo - demo for berkeley socket interface {oss}

faucet - pipe-like functionality over TCP sockets {oss}

socket - shell-level interface to IP/TCP sockets {oss}

ucspi-unix-0.34.tgz - tools for building unix domain socket client/servers

NetPipes - The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. {oss}

Applications and Utilities

socket (2) - create an endpoint for communication {oss}

listen (2) - listen for connections on a socket {oss}

accept (2) - accept a connection on a socket {oss}

bindresvport (3) - bind a socket to a privileged IP port {oss}

bind (2) - bind a name to a socket {oss}

connect (2) - initiate a connection on a socket {oss}

write writev (2) - write output {oss}

send sendto sendmsg (2) - send a message from a socket {oss}

read readv (2) - read input {oss}

recv recvfrom recvmsg (2) - receive a message from a socket {oss}

getpeername (2) - get name of connected peer {oss}

getsockname (2) - get socket name {oss}

getsockopt setsockopt (2) - get and set options on sockets {oss}

ioctl (2) - control device {oss}

shutdown (2) - shut down part of a full-duplex connection {oss}

select (2) - synchronous I/O multiplexing {oss}

poll (2) - synchronous I/O multiplexing {oss}

sdl_net-1.2.4 - A small sample cross-platform networking library

libunpipc-1.0 - The networking library used in UNIX Network Programming Volume 2 2e

py22-libnet-1.0 - Python module for the libnet packet construction library

goblin-2.4a3 - A Graph Object Library for Network Programming Problems

libunp-1.0 - The networking library used in UNIX Network Programming Volume 1 2e

gnet-1.1.0 - A simple network library built upon Glib

libvanessa_socket-0.0.3 - Library that provides a simple layer for TCP/IP socket operations

ruby-tcpsocketpipe-1.8 - A Ruby library to create I/O pipes for TCP socket tunneling

rudiments-0.23 - A utility C++ class library for daemons, clients, servers and more

adasockets-0.1.19 - Sockets library for Ada

p5-Net-ext-0.932 - Perl modules for using sockets

p5-Socket6-0.10 - Perl module to support getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo()

libsocket++-1.10 - A C++ wrapper library to the sockets

Socket - Perl already makes socket functions available to you, but many versions don't load all the constants and structures you need. That's what the Socket module is for. The Socket module is bundled with Perl.

Net::Gen - Generic sockets interface. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::Inet - Basic services for socket-based communications. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::TCP - Provides TCP communication over sockets. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Net::UDP - Provides UDP communication over sockets. Part of the Net-ext bundle. [Perl] {oss}

p5-libnet-1.0703.tgz - modules for net-based applications

Libraries and Functions

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