W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP guru and general good guy, has made some of the excellent diagrams from his TCP/IP Illustrated series of books available for free. (If you're serious about learning the inner details of TCP/IP, these are the books to get. Highly recommended.) The first link above takes you to Addison-Wesley's web site, which not only describes Volume 1 of the series well, it also contains links to a four-part "TCP/IP poster" in Postscript format. If you do not have a Postscript printer, you can display and print them with the freely-available Aladdin Ghostscript package. Also available is the TCP/IP Pocket Guide. I find the TCP/IP state diagram on page 2 of the Guide most helpful.
The Lame List is an entertaining and educational list of "don'ts" for Winsock programmers. The list is also annotated with the rationale for each entry, and alternatives for the proscribed practices.
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