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Title: Juniper Networks(r) Routers: The Complete Reference by Matt Kolon, Jeff Doyle ISBN: 0072194812 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: Seeing that Juniper was banking on the name of Jeff Doyle to get this book to sell, I had expected much better. Unfortunately this book resembles a hurriedly baked semi-cooked apple pie [some of the authors must have delayed writing until the very last moment].
As another reviewer pointed out this book suffers from "too many cooks spoil the broth". The chapter on RIP was good [written by Jeff Doyle], but is followed by OSPF theory [English appears to be the author's second or third language; which makes for a lot of head scratching and referencing other books to make sense of things].
Overall I can safely say that the book was an attempt in the right direction and would have fared much better had Juniper's documentation department not rushed it out and had sitten with the authors and atleast taken one good look at the book before it went to the publishers. This could have avoided gaffes like on page 551 the figure of IS-IS PDU type has nothing in it!!
A cheaper option would be to study the protocol basics from better books and then use juniper's documentation to configure your routers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent review of JUNOS and great ref on integrated ISIS
Comment: As others have pointed out you can read the Juniper technical publications and IETF drafts and RFCs instead of this book. I find that opinion interesting since almost ALL technical books dealing with IP technology one could say the same and they all heavily borrow from the actual RFCs/drafts.
My point is, this book is no different than other books in it's field meaning you could read a volume of books/publications that has 10,000's of pages stacked on your floor or you could get a condensed version of all that by reading The complete ref for Juniper Networks Routers.
What you won't get in the IETF drafts/RFC's and Juniper technical publications is the step by step how-to reference on setting up the various configs using JUNOS along with a description of what is occurring. You also are not sickened with any idiotic marketing hype that is always in Cisco IOS books which makes one wonder who wrote them (marketing or an actual engineer). Pretty much they give you a straightforward guide on how to setup JUNOS without a bunch of fluff.
It's a great reference on JUNOS overall and probably the BEST (far better than Doyle's IOS chapter on ISIS) reference on integrated ISIS outside of reading the ISO specs (which can be annoying to read compared to an RFC!!!).
Rating: 5
Summary: a must have for all noc's!!!
Comment: an excellent book for an indepth understanding of routing protocols with emphasis on bgp & mpls, basically stuff from an isp's prespective. don't worry too much on typo's and spelling mistakes(found only in chapter 6), this book is techincally sound overall.
gives a lot of references to rfc's, has a lot of examples & real life scenario's....read it to believe it
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