I''m starting to look at implementing the networking layer for my game engine and i''m looking for a good book that''ll explain some of the basics and preferably one that will cover all of the low level stuff that i''ll need know before i can get a simple library functioning (if that makes *any* sense). All i really know so far is that i want to avoid DPlay. I''ve got a pretty good idea of how i want to implement the high level structure all i''m really missing is the stuff about sockets and things down at packet level. Cheers for any suggestions.

For Windows: Lewis Napper''s "Winsock 2"

For *nix: W. Richard Stevens'' "Unix Network Programming: Volume 1"

"Network Programming for Microsoft Windows" by Jones Ohlund is hands down the best one I''ve seen for WinSock

Cheers guys, i''ll check them out.