The TCP/IP Guide -- Updates

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Page 95:
"Layer N-2 creates a layer N-2 PDU containing the layer N-1 SDU..." should read "Layer N-2 creates a layer N-2 PDU containing the layer N-1 PDU..."

Page 98:
In Figure 5-7, "Layer 2 Protocol A" appears twice on the lower-left corner. The bottom instance should be "Layer 1 Protocol A" instead.

Page 224:
In Figure 13-8, the Hexadecimal multicast-mapped hardware address "should be "01-00-5E-4D-62-B1." Also, the third set of binary digits from the left should be "01011110," not "10010100." Please see this online image for the correct figure.

Page 262:
In Table 17-3, "16,277,214" should be "16,777,214."

Page 293:
"The total number of hosts needed is thus 196" should read "The total number of hosts needed is thus 190".

Pages 307-308:
On the bottom of page 307 at the top of page 308, the binary digit string should start with "10100110," not "0100110."

Page 312:
In Figure 19-8, the last octet in the binary representation of Subnet #0, Host #2 is shown as "00000001" when it should be "00000010".

Page 432:
In Figure 28-1, the box in the lower-left corner that "Inside Global" should read "Outside Local" instead.

Page 533:
In Figure 32-7, "Type = 11" should be "Type = 12."

Page 723:
In the first paragraph, "five main tasks" should read "six main tasks."

Page 784:
In the second paragraph from the bottom, "350" should be "360."

Page 844:
In Listing 51-1, "Host Table Name Space" should not appear.

Page 898:
"Finally, if an amount of time equal to Expires seconds elapses, the master name server will stop serving data from the zone until it re-establishes contact with the primary name server." should read "Finally, if an amount of time equal to Expires seconds elapses, the slave name server will stop serving data from the zone until it re-establishes contact with the primary name server.".

Page 980:
"In fact, the successor to RFC 1497 is RFC 1533, which officially merges BOOTP vendor extensions and BOOTP options into the same standard." should read "In fact, the successor to RFC 1497 is RFC 1533, which officially merges BOOTP vendor extensions and DHCP options into the same standard.".

Page 987:
In Table 60-1, in the row for the field "CHAddr", "address of the client sending a BOOTREPLY" should read "address of the client sending a BOOTREQUEST".

Page 1146:
In Table 70-1, the encoding "%26" is shown as corresponding to the "%" character; it really is for the "&" character.

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