Understanding Linux network internals

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Just as an update if anyone cares, I decided to go with "Understanding Linux Network Internals". It doesn't cover TCP or IPv6, but it looks like the perfect level of depth that I'm looking for, so hopefully what I learn from this book will help me figure out the rest of the TCP part by myself. The Linux Networking Architecture: Design and Implementation of Network Protocols in the Linux Kernel looked perfect, but it doesn't cover 2.6 kernels, only 2.2-2.4. Although it did cover more network protocols, I'm more interested in the current kernel than in a wide range of details.

Do you know there is "Understanding Linux Network Internals"? It's a fat beast but covers the subject in great detail. I had to write a device driver and needed to use a netlink socket for high speed chunked data transfer; for that particular purpose, I found ULNI to be too verbose and learned everything I needed from the Rubini book, the Love book, and various Linux Journal and LWN articles along with the requisite snooping into various sources. Robert Love's book is a joy to read, very compact and quick, piecemeal introduction to the higher levels aspects of the kernel. Corbet, Rubini and Kroah-Hartman is good for some quick hands on. Supplment them with various other stuff online and linux/Documentation; nothing will force you to learn FAST like a buggy driver or a piece of unsupported hardware. I find casual academic hacking boring, a…