Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xvi The symbol used to represent a router in figure P-1 was replaced |
by the router symbol in P-2. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 11 under TCP/IP Protocols and Services In-Depth: |
SMTP is defined as "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 12 Fig 1-6 |
"Web browser" now reads "mail agent" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 14 At the end of the 1st paragraph |
00:00:c0:c8:b2:27 |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 38 Tables 2-1 through 2-4, |
the entries in the right-hand column that did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 40 |
In the first paragraph, the sentence that read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 41 |
The paragraph above the heading "Datagram Independence" previously read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 45 In the end of the first paragraph under the heading "Fragmentation and |
Reassembly," "16-megabit Token Ring" NOW READS: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 45-46 In the first column of Table 2-5, "16 MB/s Token Ring" NOW READS |
"16-Mb/s Token Ring" and "4 MBs Token Ring" NOW READS "4-Mb/s Token Ring". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 47 The symbol used to represent a router in figure 2-7 was replaced |
by the router symbol in P-2. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 52 In the last paragraph, change "256 KB/s" NOW READS "256 Kb/s." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 54 Table 2-9 |
Some of the numeric values in Table 2-9 are indeed inverted. This was clarified in RFC 1349. |
Anonymous | Apr 05, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 54-55 Values in Table 2-9 were inverted. The numbers HAVE BEEN CHANGED and |
the rows RE-ARRANGED so that the order and values are as follows: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 71 Table 2-12 |
"2 | Internet Group Message Protocol (IGMP)" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 89 In the first paragraph under "Notes on Fragmentation," "16 MB/s" NOW READS "16 Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 98 The first sentence of the sixth paragraph |
"ARP packets work at the data-link layer, the same as IP packets." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 129 In the last paragraph, the sentence that read: |
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Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 151 In the last paragraph of p. 151, the author stated, "In |
addition, all IGMPv2 messages must use the Router Alert Option in |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 152 The first paragraph on p. 152 stated, "Figure 4-6 shows an IGMPv2 |
Membership Query message..." |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 180 The symbol used to represent a router in figure 5-3 was replaced |
by the router symbol in P-2. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 184-185 The following text NOW REPLACES the previously existing paragraph under the |
heading "Redirect for Destination Network": |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 185 The symbol used to represent a router in figure 5-5 was replaced |
by the router symbol in P-2. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 185 The following sentence HAS BEEN ADDED to the end of the description for "Redirect for |
Destination Network Based on Type-of-Service": |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 190 The symbol used to represent a router in figure 5-7 was replaced |
by the router symbol in P-2. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 196 The last sentence in the 2nd paragraph: |
"Note that RFC 1122 states that if a system receives an ICMP message with type or code that |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 204 The two occurances of port "1051" on page 204 were |
replaced with "port "1112." Note that there were separate occurrances |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 210 Table 5-6:. The phrase "(deprecated)" HAS BEEN ADDED to the end of the sentences |
describing Code 0 and Code 2. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 215 Figure 5-21 showed a an ICMP error message when it was supposed to show |
an ICMP query message. The changes are as follows: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 220 The "Additional Fields" entry just above Table 5-12: |
"Both the Echo Request and Echo Reply query messages use four additional fields." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 221-222 Last sentence under "Capture Sample" & Fig 5-26 |
The last sentence under the heading "Capture Sample" on page 221 states the |
Anonymous | Apr 05, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 233 Figure 5-32 does not represent the last ECHO Request sent. The |
sequence number should be 512, not 0. |
Anonymous | Apr 05, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 233 Figure 5-32 was changed as follows |
At the end of the line above the first horizontal scroll bar, "SN=0" was |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 275 There is an error in Figure 7-3, which shows "TCP:src port xxxx, |
desk port 80". That should be "destination " not "desk port". |
Anonymous | Apr 05, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 278 In Table 7-1, the descriptions for ports 20 and 21 were backwards. |
They NOW READ: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 290 In the 2nd paragraph under "MTU and MRU Size Considerations,": |
"MTU/MRU for Ethernet networks is only 1.5 kilobytes." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 292 In the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph above "Path MTU Discovery," |
"capable of supporting MTU sizes of 1.5 kilobytes would use..." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 293 In the first full paragraph on the page, the two occurrances of "1.5 kilobyte" |
NOW READ "1500 byte." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 299 In the 4th line of the first full paragraph, "kilo398byte" NOW READS "kilobyte." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 308 Figure 7-12 is in error. |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 309 The second sentence in the second paragraph under the Congestion Avoidance heading |
"As such, RFC 1112 states that..." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 350 Change this text |
Also, note that some systems do not take into consideration any extra |
Anonymous | Nov 15, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 369 Please add the following paragraph to entry #4, in between the two |
existing paragraphs: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 370 Item 1 under "Interactive Data Exchange" |
"the Discard server's well-known port" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 370 The last sentence of the first paragraph in item 7: |
"This allows the acknowledgment to the shutdown request to be trackedindependently of the request itself." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 374 The first sentence in item 2 |
"the Chargen server on Greywolf immediately starts sending data to the Chargen client on Arachnid." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 377 The next-to-last sentence in item 26: |
"Although Greywolf cannot currently accept any data, it will be able to send a shutdown message, |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 380 In the last paragraph, both occurrences of "100 MB/s" NOW READ "100 Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 381 In the Note, "19.2 KB/s" NOW READS "19.2 Kb/s" and "1.5 MB/s" NOW READS "1.5 Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 381 In the paragraph below the Note, "19.2 KB/s" NOW READS "19.2 Kb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 381-382 In Table 7-10, all occurrences of "KB/s" NOW READ "Kb/s" and all |
occurrences of "MB/s" NOW READ "Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 382 In the first paragraph, "19.2 KB/s" NOW READS "19.2 Kb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 382 In the second paragraph, "100 mb/s" NOW READS "100Mb/s" and "10 MB/s" NOW READS "10 Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 382 In the third paragraph, "19.2 KB/s" NOW READS "19.2 Kb/s" and "10 MB/s" NOW READS "10 Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 384 Table 7-11 was changed to the following |
Table 7-11. Possible Window sizes, based on the maximum number of |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 384 In Table 7-11, all occurrences of "KB/s" NOW READ "Kb/s" and all |
occurrences of "MB/s" NOW READ "Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 384 In the paragraph under Table 7-11, "100 MB/s" NOW READS "100Mb/s". |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | ||
Printed | Page 388 The fifth paragraph down, beginning: |
"The HTTP problem is illustrated in Figure 7-47. In that example, the |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 389 Figure 7-47 shows 1460 bytes in the first segment, followed by 60 |
additional bytes in the next segment (number "3"). The latter element should |
Anonymous | Nov 15, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 390 Figure 7-48 has the same error. |
Anonymous | Nov 15, 2013 | ||
Printed | Page 407-416 Appendix B has been revised. You can find the new version online at |
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925724/chapter/appb.html. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 417 A note should be added to the description of Surveyor Lite indicating |
that readers should either use the help file from the 15 day trial version or |
Anonymous |