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How To Write a Great Research Paper All of the steps of writing a research paper are covered, including choosing a topic, taking notes, writing the outline, compiling a bibliography, revising, evaluating, and more! All is written in friendly language designed to appeal to the middle school age group. Each section includes instructions, examples, and reproducible worksheets. 96 pages.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book.......2007-08-23
I searched many books for an author that can explain VLSM/CIDR concepts. This is the best book I found on the subject. The author explained a complex topic so simply, I wondered why so many networking books (cisco books in particular) could not delve into it in this eloquent and fruitful manner. Most other books contain scant little info and poor presentation to explain VLSM/CIDR. This book told me everything I need to know on the topic.
YOU are the Winner..........2007-02-17
...if you get this book. This guy takes you through the overview of the internet, and deep into the jungle of protocols, technologies, servers, clients, and nitty gritty details, without loosing you on the way! And the language..., and the explanations..., if you don't "get it" from this book, you should really consider doing something else :-).
An amazingly easy read.......2007-01-26
This book is outstanding. The reason? Because I can understand it. And that's saying a TON. I really enjoy the side humor which keeps the book a comfortable read. The chapters are laid out in a format that will bring you back to some fundamental elements and descriptions, so you don't have to thumb back to the previous chapter to remember something you're reading up on now. It's a very solid read. I enjoyed it. Thanks for putting this book together!!!
TCP/IP in Full.......2006-12-01
The TCP/IP Guide is a huge reference book (1616 pages). Its size alone may intimidate those simply looking to obtain a basic understanding of networking protocols, which would be a shame as the book is very readable, well-laid out. Moreover, the introduction is very sound and helps to educate readers with a baseline of information by covering such topics as theoretical and real-world throughput, networking structures, and bits and bytes.
Because of its size, it is virtually impossible to sit down and read the book from beginning to end. That said the book, from chapter to chapter, is very readable. However, with reference books, it is often more important to talk about structure, contents and format.
The book is broken down into eighty-eight chapters grouped into three sections:
TCP/IP Overview and Background Information
TCP/IP Lower-Layer Core Protocols
TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols
Each chapter and section starts with a brief introduction laying out its contents and putting them in the context of the TCP/IP protocol.
The book looks at the web, HTTP, SNMP, ICMP, SMTP, Email, DHCP, Mobile IP, FTP and TFTP. It includes an overview and comparison of TCP and UDP and discusses establishing connections, management and termination of TCP. IPv6 receives roughly sixty pages of discussion, ranging from a high-level overview to transition challenges, physical address mapping, auto-configuration, reassembly and routing. There is also a fine chapter explaining IPsec components and protocols. And one can find more than a hundred pages on DNS.
Scattered throughout the book are more than three hundred figures to aid in the understanding of concepts. And the more than three hundred tables make for faster referencing and easy comparisons and contrasts. Key concepts are highlighted and set apart from the general text.
One of the strengths of the book comes from the analogies and similes that Kozierok employs to explain technologies that can, at first glance, seem rather opaque. Useful analogies are the sign of a good teacher and someone who is actually interested in helping others learn and gain understanding.
At first, I thought it might be more convenient if the book were in PDF format so that quick searches could be performed. But, I've found that with a glance at the index or the chapters, I can find things easily and reliably. This speaks, to an extent, of the book's structure. I find it irritating when a book of this size is not organized well and sends me searching throughout the book for the explanation I am seeking. Kozierok and his editors have skillfully avoided this trap and kept within a well-defined framework.
If you get the idea that this book is rather exhaustive in its approach, you have started to get the picture. The tome is not a pocket guide. It weighs more than my laptop and you will tire of schlepping it around, between office and home. However, the information contained in the book is easily accessible, informative and comprehensive.
A valuable encyclopedic compendium of TCP/IP information.......2006-10-15
At 5.25 pounds and 1616 pages, and chock-full of charts, figures, and diagrams (its lists of figures and diagrams alone are 19 pages long) this book truly earns its subtitle. I've been working with TCP/IP for a long time (as far back as the early 1980s) and I've never seen a book on this subject before to match this one. That said I've only been working with it for months so I'll probably update this review after I've lived with and used the book a while longer -- but even now, I know of no other resource (except its online analog at [...] to equal its depth or breadth of coverage.
Literally, when it comes to TCP/IP, this book's got it all. You need only flip through the table or contents (better still, the index at the back) to get a sense of how truly encyclopedic its coverage really is. Let's take a hike through the top two levels of The TCP/IP Guide's table of contents (slightly abridged for brevity):
Section I: TCP/IP Overview and Background Information
Part I-1: Networking Fundamentals (61 pp)
Part I-2: The OSI Reference Model
Part I-3: TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Architecture
Section II: TCP/IP Lower-Layer Core Protocols
Part II-1: TCP/IP Network Interface Layer Protocols (SLIP & PPP)
Part II-2: TCP/IP Network Interface Layer Connection Protocols (ARP & RARP)
Part II-3: Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4)
Part II-4: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Part II-5: IP-Related Feature Protocols (NAT, IPsec, & Mobile IP)
Part II-6: IP Support Protocols (ICMPv4, ICMPv6)
Part II-7: TCP/IP Routing Protocols (Gateway Protocols: RIP, OSPF, BGP, others)
Part II-8: TCP/IP Transport Layer Protocols (TCP & UDP)
Section III: TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols
Part III-1: Name Systems and TCP/IP Name Registration and Resolution (DNS)
Part III-2: Network File and Resource Sharing Protocols (NFS)
Part III-3: Host Configuration and TCP/IP Host Configuration Protocols (Bootp, DHCP, DHCPv6)
Part III-4: Network Management Framework and Protocols (SMI, SNMP, RMON)
Part III-5: TCP/IP Application Addressing and Application Categories
Part III-6: TCP/IP General File Transfer Protocols (FTP & TFTP)
Part III-7: TCP/IP E-mail Concepts and Principles (RFC 822, MIME, SMTP, more)
Part III-8: TCP/IP WWW and HTTP
Part III-9: Other File and Message Transfer Apps (Usenet, NNTP, Gopher)
Part III-10: Interactive and Administrative Utilities and Protocols
The content in this book is accurate, clear, and both well written and illustrated. See Chapter 12 "PPP Protocol Frame Formats" for some of the best uses of charts and tables to illuminate TCP/IP we've ever seen. See Chapters 8 and 45 for outstanding descriptions and explanations of the history of TCP/IP protocols in general (8) and the TCP protocol in particular (45). The discussion of TCP windowing in Chapters 46 and 49 is also great, and all four of the pages that make up Chapter 86 on Gopher are simply a delight to read.
Like some other reviewers, I was initially intimidated by this book's sheer mass and overall coverage. But as you use this book on a day-to-day basis you'll find it creeping ever closer to your hands over time. It started on a bookshelf near my desk, and now sits on my desk most of the time. As references and resources go, for those who work regularly with TCP/IP it's as close to indispensable as a printed work can get. Given readily available discounted prices of around $50 ($50.37 on Amazon, $49.95 at Bookpool) it's on a par with high-dollar ham or salami and less than prosciutto or smoked salmon by the pound -- and stays with you one heck of a lot longer. How could things get any better than that? Stay tuned, we'll come back to this book in six months and let you know!
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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is central to communication among the routers that move data from domain to domain. Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook explains how to use all Internetwork Operating System (IOS) commands having to do with BGP-4, documenting the purpose and syntax of each and presenting an example of appropriate use for most. This book is both a fantastic reference--it's easy to locate the entry that describes the command that interests you--and an excellent learning tool. You'll want to consult it each time you're presented with an interdomain routing problem, either for the IOS commands you need to implement your ideas or for the author's thoughts about how to engineer your solution.
Coverage of each BGP-4 command goes beyond what's in the IOS documentation. Each entry begins with a syntax summary (in large type, bless the book's designers), a concise statement of what the command does, and a note of the IOS version in which the command first appeared. After that, there's a configuration example consisting of input and output listings from the IOS command line and some suggestions (in the form of explicit IOS commands) on how to troubleshoot related problems. Sometimes there's a schematic "hockey puck" diagram to clarify configurations. This is a valuable reference and--for hardcore IOS fans and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) candidates--an informative, straight-through read. --David Wall
Topics covered: Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) as configured in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS). All IOS commands relevant to BGP-4 configuration, and all interesting options, are covered in reference form.
Book Description
The comprehensive, hands-on guide to all Cisco IOS(r) Software BGP-4 commands
- The complete BGP-4 command reference
- invaluable for network designers, engineers, and architects
- Provides configuration, troubleshooting, and verification scenarios for every possible BGP-4 command supported by Cisco IOS Software that can be implemented on a minimum number of routers
- Groups BGP-4 commands by area of implementation route aggregation, auto-summary, route filtering, and route advertisement, just to name a few
- Provides clear and concise commentary on the initial release, purpose, syntax, and usage of each BGP-4 command
- Offers excellent CCIE certification preparation from one of the CCIE Program Managers
- Includes supplementary information on regular expressions, route map logic, and RFC 1771, A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook is an exhaustive practical reference to the commands contained within BGP-4. For each command/subcommand, author Bill Parkhurst explains the intended use or function and how to properly configure it. Then he presents scenarios to demonstrate every facet of the command and its use, along with appropriate
show and debug commands. Through the discussion of functionality and the scenario-based configuration examples, Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook will help you gain a thorough understanding of the practical side of BGP-4.
Customer Reviews:
Great book to learn the power of BGP.......2006-02-04
CiscoPress's "BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook" by Dr. Parkhurst packs a punch for it's size. Most Cisco books of any value require a forklift to carry them around. In just under 400 pages, this book succinctly explains a plethora of BGP commands. It is important to note, this is not a BGP-101 book, anyone using this book should either have a basic understanding of Cisco's implementation of BGP from other CiscoPress books (either Doyle or Halabi).
The concept of this book is very simple - important BGP commands are discussed and also documented in configuration examples. It is very easy to understand the syntax of different BGP commands when displayed in this manner. There are a number of diagrams, showing the topology at hand. What I also like is that the book will often use different `show' commands to further document the use of the command. Appendix B is also of particular value, as it discusses regular expressions (something Cisco does a bad job at documenting - I think for awhile regular expression documents were an appendix to the dial section on the Cisco website).
Overall, I wish there would be more of these type of command books published. If you have a 3 or 4 router lab network, you will be able to see the effects of most of these commands. Also, any candidate for the CCIE will find commands documented here that are not discussed in other CCIE books.
I give this book 5 pings out of 5:
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Great Book for a resource and working with BGP.......2005-05-09
I have read it and decided to share my thoughts. Basically it gives you all the BGP commands and how to use them. It's a great resource to learn from or to help with using it in the real world. All the BGP commands and examples you need in one location. A must read for CCIE prep. You can't beat that.
Buy with Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition).......2004-04-14
If You buy this book you must have the Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition)
by Sam Halabi! A useful command reference.
BGP Unveiled.......2004-03-11
The Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook has become another valuable addition to my networking library. This reference by Dr. William Parkhurst is a comprehensive listing of all BGP-4 commands used in Cisco IOS software. Like his reference on OSPF commands, each BGP command is outlined with a syntax description, a purpose for the command, configuration examples and a short troubleshooting section.
The flow of the book was very logically laid out. It begins with basic BGP route aggregation commands and progresses through neighbor configuration commands, route redistribution and ends with chapters on troubleshooting commands. Each chapter begins with basic commands and builds on those commands as the chapter progresses. This way the reader gets a feeling for how each command interacts with other commands.
As with any other command and configuration handbook, the reader must be well versed in the theory behind the technology. This is especially true with this book. I must admit, that before reading this book, I did not have much exposure to BGP-4, but I found the material very easy to comprehend. It also helped me to understand the protocol better. Without the proper background in BGP-4 you can get lost very easily, however if you have had exposure to BGP then you will find this book very useful in configuring the protocol.
Another aspect of the book I really liked was in how the configuration examples were presented. Each example had a network scenario and gave a step by step process on how to utilize the command. A network diagram was included along with outputs from the routers used in the configuration scenario. The configuration examples start with a verification phase where the correct operation is determined. Then the command is applied and the changes are outlined and displayed. The troubleshooting section outlines steps where the most common failures may occur. While the reader can get a lot of information from just reading the configuration section, it really helps if you can have access to live routers.
I also found the appendices very helpful in understanding some of the book's content. Appendix A presents the concepts and terminology contained in RFC 1771 Border Gateway Protocol 4. Appendix B covers regular expression and Appendix C is about route map logic and how route maps are used in BGP-4. Don't be daunted by Appendix A, the author left out most of the details, like packet format and content and instead focused on BGP attributes, path selection and forming BGP connections. Appendix C gave a good refresher on route maps and how they are utilized in BGP.
This book has become an excellent reference source for my studies toward the CCIE. It also helped me to understand BGP better. I would highly recommend this book to anyone studying for Cisco certification or who has to work with BGP-4 in their network. I looked forward to reading more books by Dr. Parkhurst
Good Book, Lots of errors.......2003-01-13
The good thing about this book is that with 2 or three routers you can verify the configurations presented in the book. Then it is easy to see the errors. And there are lots of errors in this book. Most of them are just simple errors that any CCNA could find; example: four loopbacks configured loopback0-3, show ip route: loopback1-4, not big errors, but confusing. Also many times routers are mixed up in the configuration and the show commands. Example: a show command on router A displays information that must be from router C. etc..
I like this book very much, but it is getting a little bit unreadable because of the corrections I made :)
The strange thing is that there is no errata on the ciscopress site for this book.
3 stars because of the errors, otherwise 4,5
Book Description
Learn practical guidelines for designing and deploying a scalable BGP routing architecture
- Up-to-date coverage of BGP features like performance tuning, multiprotocol BGP, MPLS VPN, and multicast BGP
- In-depth coverage of advanced BGP topics to help design a complex BGP routing architecture
- Practical design tips that have been proven in the field
- Extensive configuration examples and case studies
BGP Design and Implementation focuses on real-world problems and provides not only design solutions, but also the background on why they are appropriate and a practical overview of how they apply into a top-down design. The BGP protocol is being used in both service provider and enterprise networks. The design goals of these two groups are different, leading to different architectures being used in each environment. The title breaks out the separate goals, and resulting solutions for each group to assist the reader in further understanding different solution strategies.
This book starts by identifying key features and functionality in BGP. It then delves into the topics of performance tuning, routing policy development, and architectural scalability. It progresses by examining the challenges for both the service provider and enterprise customers, and provides practical guidelines and a design framework for each. BGP Design and Implementation finishes up by closely looking at the more recent extensions to BGP through Multi-Protocol BGP for MPLS-VPN, IP Multicast, IPv6, and CLNS.
Each chapter is generally organized into the following sections: Introduction, Design and Implementation Guidelines, Case Studies, and Summary.
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Customer Reviews:
What an awesome book!.......2006-02-26
This book answered so many questions I had about how the Internet works and how enterprises can use BGP in their networks. The writing style is clear and a pleasure to read. I did not notice any errors or typos. This is one of the best Cisco Press books I've read. The material covered is a logical extension (fill-the-gaps) for the knowledge one gains when studying BGP as part of the CCNP/CCDP BSCI exam. The case studies for enterprise BGP core design and Internet connectivity were one of the most interesting and useful real-world scenarios one can strive to implement. Same for the service provider examples. One caution however, this is not "beginner" material. One would greatly benefit from having a CCNP-level understanding of BGP prior to attacking this book.
Advanced BGP Implementation for ISPs.......2006-01-31
I purchased this book both to supplant my knowledge of BGP and as a resource for my CCIE studies. I found the book to be of value more towards practical implementations of BGP. This book is geared toward a high-level architecture - not if only needing to design a 10 node BGP community. One down side is there are not that many configs. On the flip side, nearly every page either has a diagram or show output. One chapter of value is Chapter 8, which focuses on Route Reflection and Confederations. The book also makes good use of Regular Expressions (pg 110) and route conditions - something that is sorely missing in CiscoPress cannon. The last few chapters dive into support for multiprotocol extensions (MPLS VPNs and IPv6). While, upon reflection, I don't believe this book is a necessary tool for the CCIE, it is certainly a book worthy of it's title.
I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
!!!.!
Ahmad Arslan Munir.......2005-09-09
This book starts by identifying key features and functionality in BGP. It then delves into the topics of performance tuning, routing policy development, and architectural scalability. It progresses by examining the challenges for both the service provider and enterprise customers, and provides practical guidelines and a design framework for each. BGP Design and Implementation finishes up by closely looking at the more recent extensions to BGP through Multi-Protocol BGP for MPLS-VPN, IP Multicast, IPv6, and CLNS.
Outstanding, PRACTICAL BGP Book!.......2004-09-02
I would just like to add my comments to the list of reviews: if you work with BGP this book is essential! What makes this book unique is that it is intended for the real-world, production environment engineer, with outstanding results. Personally, I have used this book on two major projects with excellent results; I am sure I would not have been able to find this type of information, knowledge in any single place - if at all - since as another reviewer noted, it distills years of practical experience into a well organized, accessible format. Again, my thanks to Mssrs. Zhang and Bartell for a truly outstanding, practical book that has saved me hours of work, research. Highly recommended!!
Real world BGP - advanced solutions.......2004-04-20
This book provides an excellent reference for understanding advanced BGP designs and implementations. It expands on the general BGP functionality and configuration covered in other BGP books like Internet Routing Architectures (ISBN: 157870233X). If you need a general BGP book or are just starting to learn BGP, start with Internet Routing Architectures to learn about BGP then use this book to understand how to use BGP.
Advanced BGP design concepts are presented in a logical flow and practical design scenarios are included to help you understand how and why the concept is deployed. In addition to advanced BGP designs, topics covered are performance tuning, policy control, Enterprise and Service Provider design guidelines, MPLS VPN, Multicast and IPv6. These are topics not clearly discussed in Cisco documentation with this same emphasis on learning advanced BGP concepts. My only wish (not a complaint in any way) is that a chapter or appendix was included as a general BGP review for reference. Maybe in the 2nd edition as the book is updated? Kudos to the authors and Cisco Press for compiling this information in such a useful and readable book! Highly recommend!!
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This book will be indispensable to Unix system administrators. It describes how to set up and administer a network of Unix systems using the TCP/IP protocols, taking a thoroughly practical approach. Topics covered include basic system configuration, routing, common network applications, and many others.
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This complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network is essential for network administrators, and invaluable for users of home systems that access the Internet. The book starts with the fundamentals -- what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used to move data through the network, how to set up your network connection -- and then covers, in detail, everything you need to know to exchange information via the Internet. Included are discussions on advanced routing protocols (RIPv2, OSPF, and BGP) and the gated software package that implements them, a tutorial on configuring important network services -- including DNS, Apache, sendmail, Samba, PPP, and DHCP -- as well as expanded chapters on troubleshooting and security. TCP/IP Network Administration is also a command and syntax reference for important packages such as gated, pppd, named, dhcpd, and sendmail. With coverage that includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, and System V TCP/IP implementations, the third edition contains:
- Overview of TCP/IP
- Delivering the data
- Network services
- Getting startedM
- Basic configuration
- Configuring the interface
- Configuring routing
- Configuring DNS
- Configuring network servers
- Configuring sendmail
- Configuring Apache
- Network security
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices include dip, ppd, and chat reference, a gated reference, a dhcpd reference, and a sendmail reference
This new edition includes ways of configuring Samba to provide file and print sharing on networks that integrate Unix and Windows, and a new chapter is dedicated to the important task of configuring the Apache web server. Coverage of network security now includes details on OpenSSH, stunnel, gpg, iptables, and the access control mechanism in xinetd. Plus, the book offers updated information about DNS, including details on BIND 8 and BIND 9, the role of classless IP addressing and network prefixes, and the changing role of registrars. Without a doubt, TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition is a must-have for all network administrators and anyone who deals with a network that transmits data over the Internet.
Customer Reviews:
Administer for performance, not convenience.......2007-02-05
Anyone who has been concerned or is currently concerned with the performance of networks, no matter how large, has had to deal with the TCP/IP protocol. It has its origins in the late 1960's, being invented essentially by government researchers and finally finding its first specification in 1979. This book is written for Unix systems administrators who must deal with the intricacies of TCP/IP but unfortunately does not suggest to them methods for improving TCP/IP performance. It is one thing to administer for convenience and ease in troubleshooting. It is quite another thing to administer for performance. For this reason, this reviewer only read the last chapter in the book, which deals with the troubleshooting of the TCP/IP implementation. A future edition would be greatly improved by detailed discussion of performance issues and how to administer for optimum performance.
The author does however give a fairly detailed discussion of troubleshooting in TCP/IP and give a few hints to assist the beginning sys/ad person. Many of these are readily apparent to those who are acquainted with the dynamics of TCP/IP, while others are based more on a commonsense understanding of how networks are configured. For example, the author advises checking to see if the trouble is unique to only one application or if it only occurs on one remote host versus all remote hosts. Problems that are application specific are to be distinguished from those that may require investigation into the actual network, the latter occurring when hosts are experiencing problems on only certain subnets.
It is interesting that the troubleshooting techniques and tools that are described in this chapter still require a great deal of human intervention, and therefore are dependent on the time restrictions of the network engineer or administrator. These tools include "built-in" investigative ones like `ipconfig', `ping', `traceroute', and `snoop'. Some of these tools unfortunately can also be used to disrupt a network, such as for example when `ping attacks' are used to flood a host with a barrage of ping packets. In addition, many of them can be used to hack into a particular host, or gain information for a successful intrusion into that host's networked computers. Many of them also can be used to gain information on the layers that are below the TCP layer, such as the `arp' command that allows one to analyze problems with translation between IP and Ethernet addresses.
It is not surprising to find discussions on network design in this chapter, and in these discussions one must go deeper into the lower OSI levels. And in these discussions, particularly in the one on how to subdivide an Ethernet in order to manage the network traffic on a particular segment, the author does indirectly discuss performance issues, although they are strictly speaking outside of the TCP/IP protocol, and its sometimes striking and unpredictable behavior on real networks. This complicated behavior of TCP/IP, and the severe financial impact that its maladies can cause for business and industry dictate that a much more sophisticated approach to troubleshooting TCP/IP be used. This approach would deploy a system that responds immediately to TCP problems, analyzes them, and takes correction (on its own if the risks are understood). In addition it would learn from experience, or "keep a historical record' in the words of the author, so as to be able to confront similar problems in the future more efficiently. Having such an autonomous real-time TCP/IP troubleshooter that is not bound by the long time scales characteristic of human intervention would be complex but definitely useful and a huge return on investment.
TCP/IP Fundamentals.......2005-06-30
This book covers the in's and out's of TCP/IP with a Unix focus. Non-Unix users will find this book equally useful as the Unix user, in that it presents the information in a format that is easy to follow as well as comprehensive.
This book doesn't cater to the casual reader, instead it gives the facts required for administration of a TCP/IP based network. If you want to understand this topic, this is the book to use.
Cannot Live Without.......2004-11-19
Though this book is oriented to UNIX, I find it tremendously useful as a Windows administrator. Core concepts gleamed from this book has catapulted me greatly into my career, and allowed me to solve complex networking problems and avert major disasters.
I was introduced to this book for a UNIX Network Administration course, and from this I was able to really flesh out core TCP/IP concepts as well as play with services like DHCP and DNS, which are essential pieces for a Windows Active Directory environment. Using this book I was able to dabble with other services like NFS and SAMBA from a variety of systems ranging from Mac OS X to Solaris x86 to Linux to Windows XP...
I don't have any complaints, but rather some requests for future editions. I wish there was some coverage of IPSec and Kerberos in Chapter 12 "Network Security". I think Chapter 9 "Local Netowrk Services" could be expanded, as some topics are sparsely covered and there is no mention of printing technologies like IPP or CUPS. I do wish there was more coverage of the raw SMTP protocol and related technologies of POP, IMAP, and LDAP and maybe even mail servers like Exim and Postfix. However, don't touch that sendmail chapter (Chapter 10), as this coverage is so very excellent; other books go off on the deep end are far way too complex to get started.
Best TCP/IP Book Hands Down!.......2003-05-20
As with all of O'Reilly's books, this one is technically accurate and fundamentally sound.
It does not teach TCP/IP from a simplistic approach--telling you only what you need to know and leaving you begging for more. It lays a ground work based upon the actual theory of these protocols and how they were developed and the thinking that was involved in their creation.
From there, it takes you step by step through the layers of the protocols and presents everything that most people would need to know--even more than they would need to know.
Especially enlightening were the chapters on IPv6--the next generation of the IP protocol, and the chapter covering subnetting.
Overall, if you need the one book to explain TCP/IP and the "ins-and-outs" of these networking protocols, look no further.
This book has all you'll need.
A decent book to learn from and reference........2003-05-11
This coveres some aspects, and can be used to learn from--but doesn't cover all the aspects that you'll want to know. For a reference, it's pretty good too. It's a pretty decent book, though has a good mix of information that makes it a little better than average.
Book Description
The only complete source of information on IP switching and routing technologies
A master at distilling complex need-to-know networking technologies into a clear, to-the-point narrative, proven author Stephen Thomas now tackles IP switching and routing--the backbone of all Internet communications. He presents all the relevant technologies in the context of real-world applications, offering concise explanations and over 150 illustrations that make complex topics easy to understand. An invaluable resource for network managers and service provider professionals, this book delivers complete coverage of routing technologies--distance vector, link state, and path vector--as well as the full roster of Internet standard routing protocols: Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). The text then documents advances that enable Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), including the MPLS architecture, its interaction with standards routing protocols, Constraint-Based Label Distribution Protocol (CR-LDP), and traffic engineering extensions to the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP-TE).
Customer Reviews:
Good book for beginners or intermediate engineer.......2002-03-06
I purchased this book and returned it, not because it was a bad book, it wasn't. As a matter of fact had I not purchased a MPLS book already or owned the Moy OSPF book. O would have kept it. It is a good book that covers all the required routing protocols, albeit not in enough detail. The book always left me short on detail, I still had questions after I would read a section.
So once again I would say that this is a good book but not a great one. If you are looking for some basics on RIP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS then this is a good book. If you are looking for more detail, like why do ILEC's have IBGP and OSPF running on the same router, and how are these routing protocols used in networks today with some real examples, then look somewhere else.
Cheers!
Call It Like It Is - Essential.......2002-01-08
The documentation of switching and routing in IP networks was very complete and well illustrated. The book also described the concepts in the context of real world applications. Definitely lives up to its "essential" title.
Nitty-Gritty.......2002-01-08
This book really gets down to the nitty-gritty of delivering data on the Internet. It covers numerous protocols, including Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Constraint-based Label Distribution Protocol (CDL-DP), and the Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering Extensions (RSVP-TE). This book tells you what you need to know.
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- Leaves a bit to be desired
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Your first step into the world of routing
- No routing experience required
- Includes clear and easily understood explanations
- Makes learning easy
Your first step to understanding routing begins here!
- Learn routing basics simply and easily
- Explore how network traffic gets from here to there
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Welcome to the world of routing!
Routing is the technology that enables worldwide Internet communication. Many people involved with networking technologies or companies need to know how routing works. But learning about routing tends to involve a complex web of terms and acronyms-a language that can be difficult and unfamiliar.
No routing experience needed!
Routing First-Step explains the basics of Internet routing in language all of us can understand. This book takes you on a guided tour of routing, starting with systems you are familiar with: the postal system, the telephone system, and the interstate highway system. From there, you'll learn routing simply and easily. Whether you are looking to take your first step into a career in networking or are interested only in gaining knowledge of the technology, this book is for you!
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Leaves a bit to be desired.......2005-06-29
This is one of three routing intro books in the Cisco Press line. It appears to be positioned at the very entry level, ostensibly because of its inclusion of a chapter explaining routing with a post office metaphor, and a chapter on decimal and binary numbers.
Although the book is well organized, and covers the major routing protocols, it is surprising that, as an entry level book, there is no review of networking equipment, let alone an explanation of what a router is and how it functions. Many other basic routing concepts such as default routing and redistribution are not covered, but they may simple be beyond the scope of the book.
However, explanations of various topics included in the book leave a bit to be desired. For example, the chapter on EIGRP mentions early on that EIGRP can support discontiguous networks. An example is provided with no immediate explanation. The student would be unable to apply the knowledge to a different scenario. Later in the chapter, route summarization is explained. It is the way route summarization is configured that makes discontiguous networks possible, but that fact is not mentioned. Since the two sections are never tied together, the student will end up having to refer to a different routing primer in order to develop an understanding of the topic.
Routing First-Step may be Second-Step.......2005-02-05
Routing First-Step
(Your first step into the world of routing)
Reviewer Name: Steve Owen Scheiderer, Network Administrator
Reviewer Certification: MCSE NT 4.0, CCNA
ISBN: 1-58720-122-4
To earn my CCNA it took a year's worth of time in Cisco Academy modules, numerous labs,
two 990+ page books, a test study guide, and the Cisco Simulator (which I also reviewed).
Bill Parkhurst did an excellant job of summarizing basic concepts in under 400 pages. I
would recommend Chapters 1 - 6 and 9 for those pursuing CCNA certification.
What is difficult to understand, from the perspective of Cisco Academy material, is why
topics like IS-IS and GP are included in this book. Even some of the OSPF discussion
seems advanced (pp. 217-227). As a mere, humble CCNA, these sections were somewhat hard
to follow and at times produced more questions than answers. On the other hand, the
introduction to these topics was appreciated and could be helpful to some who want a quick
overview of how more advanced protocols work.
Those just starting out in routing may wish to skip some of Bill's discussion. For example,
a lot of space is devoted to the "Octal Numbering System" which Bill explains "is not used
much" (p. 45). Some of the discussion was tedious and more advanced topics seemed out of
place in a book for beginners. The time spent in the practice Bill recommends would have
been better spent with the numbering systems more widely used.
While I follwed his analogy of post offices and phone systems as they parallel ip addressing,
a novice might actually find the parallels hard to follow. This is particularly true where
there are points when the analogy breaks down. At times I wished summary statements at the
end of a discussion had been put up front to help with focus (p. 90, ip headers; p. 103,
subnets and masks take time to master). At other times, concepts were mentioned prior to
their main treatment (TCP/IP Layered Model on p. 83, then explained on p. 90; VLSM on p.
142 under Rip 1, then explained as working only under Rip 2 on p. 150).
While there are many things which commend this book as a "first step into the world of
routing," I believe it is more of a mid level book. The information above is offered to
the beginner as a way to start using this as a "first step" book.
More than expected........2004-10-27
The First-Step series are introductory books intended for those new to the topic and assumes no previous experience. Routing First-Step, by Bill Parkhurst guides the reader through the intricacies of routing by building upon situations experienced in everyday life. Throughout the book are useful illustrations, tables and configuration examples making it easier for the reader to understand the concepts presented. Each chapter ends with a series of review questions that reinforce the material read and gauge the readers understanding of the chapter. There is also a glossary provided to help the reader understand and become more familiar with industry terms.
The first chapter begins with comparing routing to events that occur in everyday. How the delivery of mail, driving from point A to point B and establishing a telephone call are synonymous with routing. In addition, the author has the foresight to begin laying the foundation for route summarization. Throughout the book, these everyday events are referenced to reinforce the concepts conveyed, making them easier to understand.
The next two chapters move into numbering systems and IP Addressing, discussing topics from converting between numbering systems to hierarchal IP Addressing schemes. For an entry level book the author went a bit overboard on the different numbering system conversions but it makes a good reference for those of us who do not remember the steps. The IP Addressing chapter is very useful, taking the binary numbering system already learned in the previous chapter and applying the concepts to hierarchical addressing, subnetting and summarization. Having a solid understanding of these concepts is necessary for anyone involved in designing an organizations IP Addressing scheme.
The book continues with the introduction of routing protocols, starting with the distance-vector routing protocols RIP v1/v2 and the Cisco proprietary IGRP/EIGRP. The next two chapters move on to the link-state protocols OSPF/IS-IS and then onto a chapter on BGP. The final chapter details the various protocols used with Multicast. The content of the chapters are much more in depth than I would have expected for this level of book (I would go so far as to say that the content rivals some of the CCNP Routing books I have read in the past). The examples and illustrations provided for each protocol will assist in building readers understanding of the information.
The author has done a wonderful job at taking a very complex subject, reducing it to its core components and presenting the material in an understandable format. When the reader completes this book, they will have a good understanding of the concepts of routing and routing protocols. I would recommend this book for those looking for an introduction to routing and IP addressing and although I would not recommend this book as the sole resource in preparing for Cisco Certification, it definitely would assist in one's efforts.
Start with a Horse carried letter, get to the Internet.......2004-10-22
Cisco First-Step books are exactly as the name implies. This book assumes that you have zero experience with what routing is, how it works, what's the addressing structure or anything else. It starts off with a discussion on how to set up a snail mail system using horses, kind of like the Post Office had to use in its early days. How would you address an envelope? There is a convention that says the return address goes in the top left hand corner. But it doesn't have to be there, if we all agreed, it could be where ever we liked. But it has to be somewhere.
This is the level of detail of where the book begins. After that, it goes on to a highway system. You want to mail a letter from San Jose to Chicago, what kind of addressing do you need, where does the letter stop on its way. Finally, these conventions become standardized, and we give them names. The names just happen to be those of the computer protocols - surprise, surprise.
By the end of the book he is discussing Border Gateway Protocols, Multicast and things like that. By then you understand that the Post Office where you started doesn't do multicast -- they don't have copiers. By then you understand how the internet addressing scheme works. You clearly understand routing and what a router does. You're ready to move on to the next step.
Customer Reviews:
Good material, but a little sloppy.......2006-07-28
This book provides a good overview of lots of BGP concepts. Example configs and diagrams make some of the more complex concepts easier to understand. The only complaint I have is that there are lots of grammatical, spelling and content errors. I wonder if anyone proofed this before it was published.
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- With this book - learning BGP has never been easier
- Excellent Introduction to BGP
- A terse yet informative discussion of BGP, mainly for pros
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) governs the exchange of routing information among autonomous networks, ensuring that packets can get from point A to point B regardless of most possible problems. BGP explores the capabilities and limitations of this exquisitely important protocol with an eye to teaching network engineers how to build systems that are faster, less costly, and more survivable than ever before. It's a great guide for those responsible for managing the interfaces between large networks and their neighbors, and a valuable aid for people preparing for their Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) tests or other advanced certifications.
Authors of protocol-centric books risk becoming bogged down in bits. Iljitsch van Beijnum avoids overwhelming his readers with packet diagrams and message analysis, choosing instead to focus on how routers use BGP to efficiently use available connections (he focuses on Cisco Systems routers in his configuration examples, but the concepts apply universally). He also pays attention--and these sections are among the book's best--to strategies for coping with problems such as cable cuts and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. He understands, and conveys to his readers through network diagrams, configuration listings, and diagnostic traces, that BGP is a tool for managing the points at which networks intersect. --David Wall
Topics covered: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), particularly as configured under Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS), and its means of describing routes across independently managed networks. Sections deal with addressing, bandwidth provisioning, traffic engineering, system monitoring, selecting and interconnecting with Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and troubleshooting.
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol used to exchange routing information across the Internet. It makes it possible for ISPs to connect to each other and for end-users to connect to more than one ISP. BGP is the only protocol that is designed to deal with a network of the Internet's size, and the only protocol that can deal well with having multiple connections to unrelated routing domains. This book is a guide to all aspects of BGP: the protocol, its configuration and operation in an Internet environment, and how to troubleshooting it. The book also describes how to secure BGP, and how BGP can be used as a tool in combating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Although the examples throughout this book are for Cisco routers, the techniques discussed can be applied to any BGP-capable router. The topics include:
- Requesting an AS number and IP addresses
- Route filtering by remote ISPs and how to avoid this
- Configuring the initial BGP setup
- Balancing the available incoming or outgoing traffic over the available connections
- Securing and troubleshooting BGP
- BGP in larger networks: interaction with internal routing protocols, scalability issues
- BGP in Internet Service Provider networks
The book is filled with numerous configuration examples with more complex case studies at the end of the book to strengthen your understanding. BGP is for anyone interested in creating reliable connectivity to the Internet.
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With this book - learning BGP has never been easier.......2007-05-15
For the last year or two I have been searching for a book that would allow me to understand the fundamentals as well as the advanced concepts in BGP. For the last year or two I have grown frustrated with the books from Cisco Press - either the writing would just put your lights out or that there is overwhelming amount of information on packets that would distract if not deter you from trying to focus on learning the protocol. Then this book came along and the author has done an outstanding job in organizing and presenting the materials that would surely keep the junior to senior level network guys interested and best of all the author clearly knows how to explain the BGP concepts in an easier to understand manner. I highly recommend this book for junior to senior network guys who have the desire to learn BGP. Learning BGP has never been easier with this book.
Excellent Introduction to BGP.......2004-04-09
The Border Gateway Protocol is a critical part of the Internet. Its operation is also completely invisible to almost everyone on the Internet. Only ISPs and companies with high bandwidth or reliability requirements. So unless you work in such an environment or want to their may not be anything of immediate interest for you in it. The subject is still interesting however.
The author starts the book off with a gentle introduction to multi-homing and why you would need or want to run BGP on your router. Someone without any experience with basic IP networking
concepts or Cisco experience will probably be lost very quickly. There is an appendix that describes the basics of Cisco configuration. The book only covers Cisco routers, which are the routers most companies are using anyway.
The book continues with some excellent tutorials on how to use BGP in your network. There are a lot of detailed explanations of all the components that make up BGP both from the perspective of a network that wants to use BGP and from the perspective of an ISP. There are even a lot of examples of the way an ISP handles more political issues like peering with other ISPs and there is an entire chapter on dealing with the day-to-day issues on your network.
Overall, this is an excellent guide to using and configuring BGP. The only thing lacking was an accompanying CD with the book. Since many of these complex protocols require practice, so some sort of simulator would have really completed the package.
A terse yet informative discussion of BGP, mainly for pros.......2003-01-06
Few of us deal with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) on a daily basis. I am not one of those whose network responsibilities include interdomain routing. I bought this book to learn more about the BGP protocol and its security characteristics. Most people fear attacks on the root name servers, as happened in October 2002. BGP, though, could offer another disaster in waiting. When the L0pht hacker group claimed before the Governmental Affairs Committee in May 1998 that it was possible to make the Internet "unusable" in 30 minutes, they were probably referring to resetting TCP sessions between BGP peers. In fact, RFC 2385 was released three months later to address that very threat.
van Beijnum's book addresses the threat and consequences of tearing down BGP sessions, and much more. "BGP" presents an insider's look within the secret group who administer some of the most crucial aspects of Internet infrastructure. Being an outsider, I was not able to digest everything the book offered. I learned some memorable lingo: "the swamp" is the part of the class C address space assigned before Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) was used. Unfortunately, "route flap dampening" was mentioned several times before being explained in chapter 10.
I most enjoyed the chapters on security, traffic engineering, and troubleshooting. van Beijnum presents lots of Cisco IOS configuration samples, and he clearly knows BGP. I could have used some additional introductory sections and would have liked to see Ethereal or similar protocol analysis of BGP messages for reference. In a world dominated by books on LANs, I like seeing books on the WAN. Don't expect "BGP" to hold your hand, however.
Clear, simple and straight to the point.......2002-12-22
This book is a quick reference for configuring BGP. The author's approach is clear and simple, it capture the attention of a Cisco Professionals who already knows BGP from the Training Courses or from the lenghty and boring Routing TCP/IP Volume II of CiscoPress.
This book is a non-nonsense approach to BGP quick configuration with simple and clear explanation.
BGP Clearly defined.......2002-11-20
From reading this book you can see that the author has brought to the table a clear explaination of BGP. I for the longest time have tried to find a book to turn people on to when they tell me they want to learn more about the subject. This book defines from top to bottom a great fundimental understanding about the protocol. I recommend this if you would like to learn more about BGP or if you need to implement it.
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- Strong introduction to the subject
- Finally BGP4 without Cisco Configurations
- What can I say, great book!
- Great primer for BGP but to general for practical use
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Since its introduction in 1993, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) has been used extensively to allow network routers to optimize the transmission of Internet Protocol (IP) packets across the Internet. As Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and corporations seek to make their network infrastructures faster and more reliable, more administrators need to get acquainted with BGP (now in version 4). John Stewart's BGP4: Inter-Domain Routing on the Internet provides a short, authoritative guide to how Internet routing works generally, along with the specifics of the BGP4 protocol.
Early sections introduce the IP protocol, the foundation of the Internet, including a concise description of IP header structure. Routing basics are also discussed, including External Gateway Protocols (EGPs) and Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs). The book presents protocols used to determine routing efficiency, including distance-vector and linking-state routing protocols.
Next, Stewart covers the Bridging Control Protocol (BGP) itself and includes discussion of BCP sessions and the message types used to send routing information between routers in BGP. A particular strength of this text is that it explains networking infrastructure with clear examples of hypothetical configurations for your ISP or organization, all using BGP. The author explains both single homing and multihoming (both with a single ISP and multiple ISPs) and explains the strategies that BGP uses to filter routing information efficiently. The book closes with new extensions to BGP, including the notion of BGP communities.
This handy introduction to one of the most important--and slightly mysterious--Internet protocols is a must for any networking professional who deals with Internet routing. --Richard Dragan
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Strong introduction to the subject.......2006-10-06
As many reviews attest to, this book is short, clearly and logically presented, and covers the majority of bgp4 attributes, without going into specific implementations. Even though it does not go into vendor-specific implementations, each attribute of the protocol discussed is explained through highly simpified network topologies, supported by diagrams. The author gives clear descriptions for each of these example networks, and then goes on to explain a certain routing policy problem and its solution using bgp4. I believe the intro/refresher on IP in the beginning of the book is good because you get the authors terms and understanding of IP before hearing his application of it to bgp in the following sections. Includes a brief introduction to load-sharing via bgp (although does not mention bgp multipath or multihop by name, it does reference the basic concept, and the concept of using loopbacks as bgp next-hops in order to achieve) and also provides a brief introduction to the capability of multi-protocol bgp, which I believe contemporary readers may be looking for information on - specifically, regarding vpnv4. The text does not mention this specific multi-protocol extension, but the general intro to mp bgp is enough to serve as an introduction to the subject. I would recommend this to anyone with a basic understanding of IP, seeking to understand, or increase their understanding of how routing is done on a global scale over the internet, or how the bgp protocol itself is designed and functions. 4 stars because on the end of page 86, the text simply cuts off mid-sentence, and begins with a new sentenced on page 87, with seemingly no obvious explanation.
Finally BGP4 without Cisco Configurations.......2003-02-22
This book was a pleasure to read because it focussed on the technology issues regarding BGP4. There was enough TCP/IP to serve as a review and then discussion on the topic of the book. Whereas how to configure a router is important, it is refreshing to read a book that talks about the technical aspects and leaves configuration to other books (especially Cisco configurations)
What can I say, great book!.......2002-11-26
Great BGP book, sure wish it was longer.
Great primer for BGP but to general for practical use.......2002-08-04
A great general discussion that boils the RFC down to something readable. If this is your first journey into BGP then this book does an excellent job of giving a broad overview of the protocol without burying the reader in the details.
The first 30 (or 116) pages gives IMHO redundant background on IP addressing, CIDR, Distance Vector protocols, and other information I believe anyone learning BGP should already know.
The book gives an excellent treament on the different message types and what they look like, but I would have preferred more details on how IBGP and EBGP differ i.e. resetting MEDs or local-pref, appending local AS, modifying NEXT_HOP attribute, etc.
The route selection process (one of my personal favorite parts of BGP) only deals with a subset (6) of the 10 or 11 options Cisco or Juniper will use. There is no mention of comparing Cisco's weight, prefix origin, MEDs between AS, cluster-list, or comparing IGP metric. To be fair though, weights are vendor specific and some of these options may have been introduced after the 1999 publication date.
My biggest frustration with the book is that being vendor agnsotic there are no details as to configuration or how one would actually implelement any of the information given. There is also no discussion on troubleshooting BGP, what typical configurations would look like, best practices in filtering or installation.
For those who already have an understanding of BGP or who have used the protocol in the field, I would recommend the Complete Reference Juniper Network Routers chapter 12 on Interdomain routing Theory or as a fall-back the much more dry and difficult to get through, Internet Routing Architectures by Halabi.
This book is best for the BGP beginner or someone who needs a refresher on what BGP is trying to accomplish and is willing to read other books on how to configure their actual routers.
Best book on BGP.......2002-03-16
This is an awesome introduction to BGP. I highly recommend it for anyone just learning BGP and also as a review for those who already know it. Good luck.
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Without some practical study, you might drive yourself crazy wondering how an e-mail message gets from Brussels to Hong Kong via a series of routers that, by themselves, have no specific knowledge of either city. Uyless Black, best known for his defining works on voice over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, has written IP Routing Protocols to explain the various route-finding algorithms. The book stays one step removed from the details of specific routing hardware and software platforms, instead explaining routing protocols as they're defined in standards documents. IP Routing Protocols, therefore, comes across as a bit academic at times, but active router technicians will find the approach clarifies their understanding of procedures used in their work.
After introducing the engineering problems routing protocols are meant to solve, the book describes five (or six, if you want to separate IGRP and EIGRP) such protocols. It explains how each one came to exist and lists its relative strengths and weaknesses, plus how each protocol calculates the best-available routes, advertises these routes to neighbors, and deals with problems.
IP Routing Protocols's dense style rewards readers willing to study the words carefully and draw meaning from the utilitarian conceptual drawings. The book will also pay the greatest dividends to readers who have used the covered routing protocols in practice, and can connect the high-level explanations to real-life observed phenomena. --David Wall
Topics covered: The most popular routing protocols used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks and internetworks, including Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI). The book also briefly discusses two proprietary Cisco protocols, Inter-Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) and Enhanced IGRP (EIGRP).
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Dry..........2001-07-22
As expected, right? However it does cover the basic routing protocols that you *need* to know about. (take that sarcastically)
A good reference...but not the kind of book you want to take with you on the plane.
How the Mighty Have Fallen.......2001-02-18
Uyless Black is one of the most prolific network authors alive today. One wonders how he can write so many books. Indeed, if you have his older books you'll wonder if he even wrote this one. The errors and simplicity far outweigh the good, original content. I bought the book based on his reputation and other titles of his in my extensive library. I returned it the following day. His errors begin with referring to the late W. Richard Stevens's book "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1" as "Steven's book." In the same sentence he recommends Professor Douglas Comer's book "Internetworking with TCP/IP" as "Come's book." If he and his editors cannot even get the singular possessive correct or spell properly, how can you trust the facts in the book? His errors multiply when he recommends a popular title from Cisco Press on OSPF that has "an average of an error a page, on a light page" according to one reviewer (private communication to me at Networkers 2000 in Orlando).
Some might think he offers detailed coverage of the protocols. I disagree. The coverage he tenders is of a basic to early-intermediate level at best. If you can follow a URL you can gain much more than Black offers here. Just read the RFCs and you will cover most of the protocols Black's book. There are two clear exceptions: Cisco's IGRP/EIGRP and ISO'S IS-IS. But wait! There is an RFC that discusses IS-IS in the IP world. Cisco has ample documents on their website that discuss their proprietary protocols.
Do not think I am opposed to published works. My networking library fills four six-shelf bookcases that are three feet wide each. My collection of de facto and de jure standards nearly fills another such bookcase. Published works fill a role that the standards documents are not intended to. But, please, buy the right book!
One gets the impression that the book was not designed to meet the needs of customer, but to fulfill a contract with a publisher. It is unfortunate, too, because the market clearly needs a detailed discussion of these routing protocols in a single volume. The only works that do so now are focused on configuring equipment from Cisco Systems, Inc.
Save your money. Buy Radia Perlman's book "Interconnections, 2ed", John Stewart's book "BGPv4", and Ivan Pepelnjak's "EIGRP Network Design Solutions." Or simply buy Jeff Doyle's "Routing TCP/IP." Sure, the last couple are Cisco-centric, but they cover the protocol operations in detail. Doyle's, in particular, covers several protocols and is probably the best overall reference on all rouTING protocols only because he also covers EIGRP. My second choice would be Radia Perlman's, even though she does not cover the popular but proprietary EIGRP. The Mother of Spanning Tree Protocol has done a remarkable job not only on rouTING protocols, but also on the layer two operations of bridges and switches.
Save your time. Don't read this book. Unless, that is, you are a paid reviewer getting it ready for a new debut.
For the routing beginner this is agreat place to start........2000-09-16
Router and routing protocols are fast becoming the certification path many people are taking. Learning TCP/IP and subnetting is most confusing if you don't understand the basis and the basics. IP Routing Protocols is a first rate work that will make sense of the whole thing.
The book is written to the more network savvy users and it's important that you have this understanding before beginning. Once you get into the book you'll find a world of information all packed into 280 plus pages. While the book does start off with the basic of internetworking, again the better understanding you have the easier it will be to grasp the more complex concepts.
You'll get router discovery principles, bridges and internetworking basics and then you will start with the routing protocols. RIP. OSPF, BGP, IGRP and EIRGP as well as PNNI are covered in the next seven chapters. The author includes a number pictures, figures and diagrams to help you see visually what he it talking about.
There are appendices that cover the OSI layered protocols, address resolution, subnetting subnet masking, translation and configuration. Also there is a section on Next Hop Resolution Protocol and several pages that cover abbreviations used in the book.
The text seems to be complete and well documented and the author has put together a excellent reference guide. While it may be a little on the pricey side the overall value is well worth the price.
Good Book.......2000-05-27
This book has help me in understanding routing in general. I wished the author went more indepth on BGP and OSPF.
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