Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

>One of my favorite interview questions for somebody who claims "expert
>knowledge of TCP/IP" or some such silliness on their resume is to ask them
>to sketch out both sides of a trivial TCP client-server application on the
>whiteboard. It usually takes a few hints, but eventually they converge on
>something like socket/bind/listen/accept/read on one side and
>socket/connect/write on the other. Then I draw them two timelines and ask
>them to show me all the packets that go on the wire, starting with the TCP
>three-way handshake. The good ones usually do that OK too. Then I ask
>them to correlate each system call in the application skeletons they just
>wrote with each packet that went out on the wire. That's where the fun
>usually begins.

But that's a trick question! (A number of packets does not
correlate to system calls)

Casper
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