This is not really an errata, but we forgot to say something important about random offsets for the sequence numbers and acknowledgement number. On page 92 the text describes these as starting from 0 or 1 and then increasing. However, to defeat certain types of packet injection attacks, a random offset is chosen for the …
Category archives: Errata
Unimportant Corrections
p4, pa1, “software interact” should be “software interacts”.p7, “focussing on” strike “focussing”.p7, “first-class” should be “first class of”.p10, pa3, strike “there is connection”.p12, pa2 “increasing” should be “increasingly”.p13, pa1 “opennessed” should be “openness”p23, reference to (Figure 1.12) could be much earlier in this section.p28, pa3, “users looking” should be “user looking”.p30, pa1, “in some worlds” …
Important Corrections
p9, pa2, “caller to sender” should be “caller to receiver”.p14, pa2, “between services” should be “between servers”p26, The caption for Figure 1.15 is wrong as the image was changed atthe last minute. This isn’t from E1M7. It should just read “An imagefrom the original Quake game).p48, Equation 2.2, lin 2. The sum on the right …