Time for more formal lectures, here is a list of helpful textbooks you should study before the technical interview (again, based on my profile, see my previous post).
- Networking
- Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide
E Hall - 2000 - O'Reilly & Associates.
Great book on TCP/IP network and transport protocols, very comprehensive yet easy reading (BTW do trash the CD contents, just use wireshark ) - POSIX & BSD sockets API
- Our beloved APUE: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
R. Stevens, S. Rago - 2004 - A. Wesley.
From our great all-time teacher, Richard Stevens, impressive as all his books. - Unix Network Programming
WR Stevens, B Fenner, AM Rudoff - 2004 - A. Wesley.
THE reference book for IPC & network programming - POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World
Bill 0. Gallmeister - 1995 - O'Reilly.
Great book about multithreading POSIX API - Linux sysadmin and alike: there are actually a LOT of books, but nothing can compare with a good expertise ;), so ...
- LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
J. Dean, B. Gomes Pessanha ... - 2006 - O'Reilly.
Nice book for autotesting your already learned sysadm knowledge & skills - Unix/Linux internals
- Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition
D. P. Bovet, M. Cesati - 2005 - O'Reilly
Too detailed, try to "grep" for concepts and graphs