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Summary: A must have for every Windows 2000 network admin
Review: As a junior windows 2000 network administrator when I first purchased this book I needed a reference with easy to understand information but technical enough to help me with my everyday task. After reading this book I went from barely knowing how TCP/IP worked in a Windows 2000 environment to knowing how each type of ethernet frame was made thanks to the extremely well explained (and detailed) schemas. The IP routing chapter is also very well written and explained. The book also comes with a CD which contains all the network monitor traces for the examples in this volume. I personally can't wait for the .net version of this book comming later this year...Congradulations on a well written book to Thomas Lee and Joe Davies!
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Summary: Great look at the nuts and bolts of TCP/IP
Review: I was looking for a book that really got in depth with TCP/IP and picked up this one. Excellent choice. Before buying this book, note that it is not a "how to" book and does not cover topics such as implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting TCP/IP applications such as DNS, WINS, IIS Services, etc, but it does give you a very detailed description of how and why each service works as it does (to include a byte-by-byte reference for each protocol). If you need to get your feet firmly entrenched in Win2K's implementation of TCP/IP, this is the book.
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Summary: A Great TCP/IP book
Review: I've been using TCP/IP for longer than I care to remember. Over the years, I've seen two kinds of TCP/IP books - pure technical detail, and administrative trivia (more dialog box shots than actual text) This book is exactally what it says it it is: a great technical reference. The book works through the layers in the TCP/IP stack in a ethodical and logical way. Each layer in the TCP/IP model is cleanly and clearly described and well illustrated by network traces (which are all included to be on the CD). So far, I've not found ANY mistakes (unlike some other 1st editions of TCP/IP books). I only wish the author had been able to do more (eg RADIUS, QOS0. Naybe the author can write a volume 2. And if he does - I'd buy it! I bought this book based on the reviews here, and I sure got my money's worth. Who knows, maybe I'll meet the author one day. Ken
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Summary: The book is what it says it is
Review: It's a useful technical reference for IP, TCP and related protocols. As a reference work I have not read through it so can't judge the accuracy of the details. But it is just the kind of no nonsense reference I need.
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Summary: TCP/IP for the new millennium!
Review: MCSE certification is changing and trying to keep up is a nightmare. Books that were current for the MCSE 4 track are being dropped at the end of the year and replaced by the MCSE 2000 track. TCP/IP is also changing and this book helps you pass the exam and get ready for the changes at the same time. In the 500 plus page book you'll get information about LAN technologies, ARP, IP basics, addressing, routing, IMCP, IGMP UDP and TCP, WINS, IIS, file and print sharing, VPN and the latest information about the IP Version 6. The book covers the exam objectives in great detail and gives you the best possible chance of passing the new and upcoming exam. Packed with tables, figures, diagrams and pictures this book should be all you need in order to pass an already difficult exam. The book includes a cd-rom, which as a book companion. What are missing are a practice test cd and more hands on examples to work with. Overall the information is well worth the $49.99 price tag and once again Microsoft Press leads the way!
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Summary: nothing much new here
Review: tcp/ip is already covered in Comer and Stevens and in plenty of RFCs if you really want the low-level stuff, buy the latest editions of those. Most of whatever is new in Windows 2000 for tcp/ip (including changes in dns, dhcp, routing, etc.) is already covered well enough in the Windows 2000 Server online help or the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit for what most people need & one of those ships for free with the server product. The rest will show up in knowledge base articles that are freely available if you search the Microsoft web site knowledge base.
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Summary: This book is NOT what it says!
Review: The book is a good technical reference for TCP/IP but NOT for windows 2000 TCP/IP. By it's title I think one would expect that the book explains about the implementation of TCP/IP in win2k i.e the data staructures used, the way buffers managed etc. BUT this book is nothing but almost RFCs rewritten! , one can as well read RFCs which are available for free or there are 1000 other well written books for protocols. To summerize, the "microsoft windows 2000" on the top of the books title is irrelevent and misleading the buyer.
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Summary: An excellent work for those dying to learn it all
Review: This book has been on my shelf for several months now. I reached for it again, today. I opened it, went to the section I needed, and immediately found the answer. It then struck me how much I was taking this book for granted. Without it, I would be digging through RFCs on a regular basis, and that is not something I would want to do. This book has proven to be a great reference, time and again. Thomas Lee, Joseph Davies, and Laura Robinson should all be commended many times over for doing a great job with an extremely difficult subject. After all, nobody reads this kind of book for entertainment. We read this kind of book for in-depth information, and this book delivers!
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Summary: An excellent work for those dying to learn it all
Review: This book has been on my shelf for several months now. I reached for it again, today. I opened it, went to the section I needed, and immediately found the answer. It then struck me how much I was taking this book for granted. Without it, I would be digging through RFCs on a regular basis, and that is not something I would want to do. This book has proven to be a great reference, time and again. Thomas Lee, Joseph Davies, and Laura Robinson should all be commended many times over for doing a great job with an extremely difficult subject. After all, nobody reads this kind of book for entertainment. We read this kind of book for in-depth information, and this book delivers!
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Summary: A very good TCP/IP book
Review: This book provides a very good study of TCP/IP in the context of Windows 2000. While the authors' style in on the dry side (How do you make this stuff exciting?); this is a VERY good book. The resource kit does have a book dealing with TCP, but its discussion is at a higher level - how is TCP/IP implemented in Windows 2000. The view there is from Windows to TCP/IP. This is a more general TCP/IP book with the emphasis from TCP/IP to Windows 2000. As a technical instructor and Windows NT and 2000 administrator, I refer to this book for low level disscusions of the protocol to clarify and explain the behavior of my systems.
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