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Title: IP Routing by Ravi Malhotra ISBN: 0-596-00275-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction to IP Routing.
Comment: As mentioned previously, if not for the errors this book would have been one of the best intros to IP Routing. It is clearly written and the coverage is pretty extensive for the page count. If you want to take it a step further to learn the IP routing protocols in detail, look at "Cisco IOS for IP Routing" by Andrew Colton. Jeff Doyle's books are great as well for the expert level.
Rating: 2
Summary: What a piece of [expletive deleted]
Comment: Seeing as how Amazon is a family site, I have self-censored my writing in this review.
I can't believe I bought this [expletive deleted] book. Riddled with typos and grammatical errors, this book by itself is reason enough for the existence of the entire spelling-checker software industry.
Another thing that really bugs me is that in the very first chapter he immediately jumps into Cisco router command-line jargon. Wait a minute, I thought to myself, where the [expletive deleted] did that come from? I thought I bought a book on IP routing, not on how to run a [expletive deleted] router. There are better ways to present IP addresses and their relationships than to show output from a router; why didn't the author consider just using a table? Aggrevating this is the fact that he starts using this Cisco CLI [expletive deleted] in the first chapter without even telling the reader the context -- like what machine this is, what the version is, why he thinks this is relevant to his presentation, or anything else. Investigating further, the only mention of Cisco is in the preface: "This book is not meant to be replacement for Cisco manuals." A-ha, so that's what this [expletive deleted] is, thanks a lot.
The writing itself is at many times very hard to understand. Like most technical writers, the author relies too much on the written word instead of complementing his descriptions with diagrams. Here's an example of his opaque writing from the chapter on BGP, my favourite routing subject:
"Multi-homing to different ISPs also creates problems with this schema. Uncle-Q has the address block 180.180.1.0/24 from ISP-X but he also connects to ISP-Z. ISP-Z would have to carry Brother-X's specific route 180.180.1.0/24. In other words, since ISP-Z advertises Brother-X's prefix, the routing tables in the attached ASs would see both the aggregate 180.180.0.0/16 from ISP-X and 180.180.1.0 from ISP-A."
After reading the above, my first question was "What the [expletive deleted] was that?" To be fair, that excerpt is accompanied by a small diagram, but it's not at all sufficient. What the [expletive deleted] is Uncle and Brother doing in this example? Where the [expletive deleted] did ISP-A come from? Good grief.
If you're interested in an introduction to this topic, just grab the nearest undergraduate textbook on Networking.
Rating: 2
Summary: Uninteresting and doesn't cover much for the topic.
Comment: I don't see the point. There's not a lot that can be used or applied. Just reading generalizations and not offering anything near the amount of knowledge and usefulness as a book dedicated to this topic should.
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Title: Network Troubleshooting Tools (O'Reilly System Administration) by Joseph D. Sloan ISBN: 059600186X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Cisco IOS in a Nutshell by James Boney ISBN: 156592942X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking) by Craig Hunt ISBN: 0596002971 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Essential SNMP by Douglas R. Mauro, Kevin J. Schmidt ISBN: 0596000200 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596001584 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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