Network Programming with Rust

Network Programming with Rust

Build fast and resilient network servers and clients by leveraging

Rust's memory-safety and concurrency features

Abhishek Chanda

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Network Programming with Rust

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To my wife, Anasua, for being an amazing partner and friend, and also for

all the diagrams in this book.

To the memory of my mother, Sikha, for her sacrifices and for exemplifying

the power of determination.

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About the author

Abhishek Chanda studied computer science at IIEST Shibpur in India and

electrical engineering at Rutgers University. He has lived and worked in

multiple countries, working on distributed systems since 2008 at big

companies such as Microsoft as well as a number smaller start-ups.

Currently, he is working with DataSine in London, where he is responsible

for the scalable deployment of infrastructure powering the backend systems

of the DataSine platform. He contributes to a number of open source

projects, including Rust.

I would like to thank Packt and their wonderful team for making this

possible, especially Vikas, Chaitanya, Madhunikita, and Diwakar. I am

grateful to Pradeep and all the reviewers for their insightful comments. This

book would not have been possible without the support of my wife, Anasua.

About the reviewer

Pradeep R is a software professional at Gigamon. He is a technology

enthusiast passionate about network programing and security, with wide

experience in working on leading enterprise network switching and routing

solutions and in development and deployment of traditional network

security elements. Currently, he is working on next-generation network

pervasive visibility solutions.

He extensively works with C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Perl, and

occasionally with Java, .NET, and Rust. Pradeep has recently reviewed Rust

Cookbook.

I would like to thank Vigneshwer Dhinakaran, my brother, who has shown

me that boundaries exists only in our minds and they are meant to be

breached. I would also like to acknowledge with gratitude my mother,

Vasanthi, my grandma, Sulochana, and my sister, Deepika, for their

constant encouragement and support.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Network Programming with Rust

Dedication

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Contributors

About the author

About the reviewer

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files

Conventions used

Get in touch

Reviews

1. Introduction to Client/Server Networking

A brief history of networks

Layering in networks

Addressing in networks

How IP routing works

How DNS works

Common service models

Connection-oriented service

Connectionless service

The network programming interface in Linux

Summary