New Skill Forged: TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1

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TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, 2nd Edition by Kevin R. Fall & W. Richard Stevens. 1000 pages.

The definitive protocol reference — every TCP/IP protocol explained with packet captures and field-by-field analysis. Covers IPv4/IPv6, ARP, ICMP, UDP, TCP (connection, reliability, congestion control), DNS, NAT, and protocol-layer attacks.

What this skill teaches Claude to do:

  • Explain the full TCP/IP stack from link layer through application
  • Decode IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP header fields and their purpose
  • Trace TCP connection lifecycle: 3-way handshake, state machine, TIME_WAIT
  • …and 6 more

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