Cisco IOS in a Nutshell

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Summary: Cisco IOS in a nutshell...
Review: and not much more. But then again, they did not promise much else... For more in depth coverage of routing protocols check out "Cisco IOS for IP Routing" by Andrew Colton. These two together should take you a long way to a good understanding of Cisco routing.

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Summary: "As Good As It Gets"
Review: Can't say anything more, the other reviewers have covered everything. A Must have book for the field and covers an aweful lot for 592 pages. Very Happy!

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Summary: Excellent Reference
Review: Cisco IOS in a Nutshell is a good book for Cisco students and admininstrators alike. It is a good reference to keep by your router if you need to get the gist of certain commands. Mr. Boney does a good job explaining Cisco technologies.

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Summary: "As Good As It Gets"
Review: IF you do any IOS commands and ever want to lookup details quickly, you'll LOVE this book. Also, IF you're learning
anything from your 1st "conf t" to advanced BGP, You'll find the tutorial part of this book (first third) SUPERBLY clear.
This book is SOOOO great, even for a beginner, that I just ordered 4 more copies for friends! This might even be the only Cisco book you need. (Note: NO mention of switches, STP, VLAN, etc.)

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Summary: Yes, this IS another Nutshell MUST_HAVE!
Review: IF you do any IOS commands and ever want to lookup details quickly, you'll LOVE this book. Also, IF you're learning
anything from your 1st "conf t" to advanced BGP, You'll find the tutorial part of this book (first third) SUPERBLY clear.
This book is SOOOO great, even for a beginner, that I just ordered 4 more copies for friends! This might even be the only Cisco book you need. (Note: NO mention of switches, STP, VLAN, etc.)

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Summary: Excellent IOS Reference Guide
Review: James Boney has done an excellent job of cramming a great deal of useful information into a concise guide to Cisco routers. There's a lot of information in here that the advanced Cisco routing course never touches. WARNING: This covers IP protocols only (but who uses AppleTalk or IPX these days, anyway?). My only quibbles are: (A) he doesn't discuss the IS-IS routing protocol, and (B), after an excellent introduction to crypto commands, he doesn't break them out in the quick reference guide. Otherwise, it will be a very useful volume for networking professionals.

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Summary: Right by my side - making it easier to configure the router.
Review: One thing I have discovered over the past 12 years is that it is impossible to remember every command associated with a particular operating system, this includes routers. That's why I have this book on my desk to help me out remembering the syntax for the configuration files.

This 590 page must have reference book starts off with the loading of the image and configuration files which included setting up the router and the Line commands needs for this. Then author gives you the commands for the configuration of the line interfaces as the next topic discussed.

From there you find commands for configuration of Frame Relay, ATM, Access Lists, and Queues as the next set of topics, followed up with Interior Routing Protocols like RIP, IGRP, EIGRP and OSPF being tackled.

Moving on BGP and SNMP, DDR, HSRP, NAT, security and troubleshooting rounds out the topics. While this book is written to any exam specifications you may it very useful for most if not all Cisco certification exams.

Finally the book has over 300 pages devoted to the commands and there breakdown to give you the where to use, description and examples of the code. About the only thing left out was the entire book in e-book format or formatted for the palm. Overall this is one book I will have with for a very long time - well done!!!

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Summary: CISCO IOS in a nutshell
Review: The Cisco IOS Command Line Interface (CLI) has burgeoned over the years, and
the consequent wealth of commands can intimidate the most seasoned system admin.

More than half of this book's 592 pages are devoted to a CLI reference section--
and if you are seriously involved with router management, you'll find that your
copy will be well worn.

The other half of the book is a practical coverage of theory -- access lists,
interior and external routing protocols, security, troubleshooting -- each
with real-world examples to back them up.

Think you're already a Cisco Guru? You might need to think again -- do you know
how to optimize your access lists? (page 98) Do you know the difference between
IGRP and EIGRP? (check out Chapter 9 -- interior routing protocols.) And finally,
do you know how to setup multiple-group hot standby routing? (flip to page 213)

This book is a great guidebook for the novice and a solid reference for the
experienced.

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Summary: 95+ percent of what you need
Review: The one thing that I really expected in a volume that seems to bill itself as at least covering most of the salient points of the subject but DIDN'T find in this one was any of the commands related to vtp, vlans or trunks. I didn't think those commands would be considered as esoteric for the purposes of this book. Otherwise, it's another excellent title from O'Reilly, and I *do* own many.. I guess if you need everything short of the kitchen sink, the Cisco volume would better meet your needs.

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Summary: The most handy Cisco IOS Book and dependable
Review: what I really like this book is that it's full jumpack of Cisco configuration for IOS.
Some people expect that this book must include Switch command, but what the heck they can't read the Title of the book "CISCO IOS" and not "Cisco CatOS & IOS"..

Anyway the discussion approach of Mr. James Boney is very superb and he just explain complicate things to simple one, and I like configuration example with explanation insert.