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Title: CISCO IOS Solutions for Network Protocols Volume I: IP by Inc Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems Inc ISBN: 1578700493 Publisher: Cisco Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.75

Rating: 5
Summary: If you don't have laser printer ...
Comment: or if reading thick and heavy "bricks" in the office would improve your image, this is your book.

Basically the book is a hardcopy of UniverCD/ Cisco's web site. There's no rational reason to buy this book. If you have some extra money - then buy it just to have it on hand. Personally I prefer CDs (I have one always with me).

Otherwise - the book itself is not bad, and $70 is not that much ...

Rating: 5
Summary: For my needs, this book is excellent ....
Comment: I am in TOTAL AGREEMENT with the other (2) reviews (posted as of 8/22/98), and I, too, would likely be disappointed with this text, under THEIR particular conditions ... HOWEVER: I am a Help desk employee who configures 5-6 Cisco Routers over the phone every day, so I do not have my own personal copy of the CD documentation (hence, I must rely on SOMETHING in lieu of the doc CD). Moreover, I am VERY EARLY into preparing for the CCIE, and this book builds on what I already know about IP addressing, and then some.

One criticism of this book said elsewhere is that it does not tell the reader how to configure the parameters documented on it's pages. Hogwash: how more clearer could Cisco Press be than presenting a table with two columns -- "Commanding this ..." and "... makes this ..." ?? ... pretty straight-forward, I thought ...

Regarding the comment that some of these parameters will be outdated eventually ... well, three comments: first, welcome to the WACKY WORLD of software (yes, Virginia, it's GONNA be outdated in six months; and yet, many of the parameters mentioned in this book will very likely be pertenent two years from now ... now THAT'S holding power); secondly, in a sense, every configuration in this book is ALREADY outdated, due to Cisco's "ConfigMaker," a GUI-interfaced config tool that makes all commands obsolete (BUT ... I feel it really helps to know what I'm commanding for my network, so that when the inevitable 11th-hour troubleshooting parties begin, I know of a place to begin); thirdly, I'm not exactly sure what the writer of that review was hoping and looking for when he even brought up this issue of outdated-ness ... so for this reason, I have no further comment ...

Rating: 2
Summary: This is just the CD-based config manual in hard cover
Comment: This book is just the IP section of Cisco's IOS documentation. Buying this stuff in frozen-state hardcover is probably a bad idea, as it will be outdated in no time. There are very few examples in this book, and virtually nothing about how things interrelate. You'd be much better off buying books with author's names on them (I notice that whenever a Cisco book lacks an author's name, it's usually a reprint of the CD documentation). I really wish Cisco would be up front about the source of the material (the Cisco CD) for these reprint titles. But nowhere do they mention how you can get the CURRENT version of this info (and for free to boot).