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Summary: Includes IPv4 and 6, NAT, VLSM, BOOTP, DHCP, Multicast
Review: Although many books cover TCP/IP, no one book really goes into as much depth with all issues related to IP Addressing as this one does. It is extremely comprehensive. The intended audience of the book is someone with a technical or management background, who understands the basics of TCP/IP and wants a complete handbook related to addressing. This is an intermediate level book. Addressing is so important in any networking world that a misunderstanding can have important consequences. For example, a poorly designed addressing architecture for a large network can cause the organization to renumber the whole network, which can involve a long down-time as well as instability during the renumbering phase. This can cost a lot of money. But, at the same time, a good addressing architecture costs no money, just good planning and a good understanding of the issues. This is one reason why this book exists. Content of This Book: Chapter 1 discusses the IPv4 addressing architecture, which is the basis of this book. Classes and subnetting are key in the IPv4 design. Once you understand IP addresses. Chapter 2 tells you how to make an address plan for your network. If your network is not connected to the internet, or if you use any kind of network address translation (NAT) device, you are going to use the private addresses reserved for that purpose. Private addresses are detailed in Chapter 3. If you use NAT, or simply want to know about it, then you should read Chapter 4, which is a comprehensive chapter on this technology. although most networks can have a good address plan using standard subnetting techniques, some networks need variable length subnet masks (VLSM), mostly because they are not balanced in the ratio of number of networks to number of hosts. VLSM is covered in Chapter 5. IP Addressing is the basis of routing; Chapter 6 deals with all the details of routing as they relate to addressing. IP requires more configuration in comparison with other LAN protocols. These issues have been resolved by BOOTP and DHCP, which are covered in Chapter 7. Multicast provides a way to have one-to-many or many-to-many packets by giving the group of destination hosts a specific and special IP address range in the class D range. This is a great and innovative way to use IP addressing, and it is covered in Chapter 8. Since the growth rate of the Internet is phenomenal, engineers developed a new version of the IP protocol, called IPv6, which brings new schemes of addressing. with addressing, IPv6 enables autoconfiguration, renumbering, efficient routing on the backbone, etc. Chapters 9 and 10 discuss IPv6 and its header and addressing structure in depth. The entire book covers the technology of IP addressing. In addition, you need to get a range of addresses for your network. The Annex discusses address assignments and registration. This book demonstrates that IP addressing is a very important feature of IP, which has evolved over time as the Internet and other organizations needed change. The new version of IP, IPv6, continues to use addressing as an important tool for network engineering.
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Summary: Solid Reference for Things IP
Review: Although the large text font (and relatively large price) suggests ulterior motives by the publisher, IP Addressing is a decent reference for subnetting and network addressing. The language is kept fairly high-level, and most of the explanations are clearly written--if a little terse--with a fair number of tables and charts making the book accessible for both novices and more advanced users alike. Since there are scant few books out there that are specifically dedicated to IP administration, this book exists as a viable option for system admins and curious readers.
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Summary: If you want to know about IPv6, read this
Review: I am deploying an IPv6 test scheme for an ISP now and this is very helpful. I didn't read the non-IPv6 chapters yet, but I assume they are OK.
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Summary: Excellent basic book on IPv4 and IPv6
Review: Not really very much more to say. If you need to know about IP addressing and subnetting get it here. A cover to cover read in two weeks and never forgotten!
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Summary: Excellent basic book on IPv4 and IPv6
Review: Not really very much more to say. If you need to know about IP addressing and subnetting get it here. A cover to cover read in two weeks and never forgotten!
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Summary: Another Syngress milestone, complex subject in smiple words!
Review: This book covers every aspect of the current version, as well as what will be a widespread migration starting in late 1999. These include: increasing the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits; supporting more levels of addressing hierarchy and an increased number of addressable nodes; supporting simpler auto-configuration of addresses; improving the scalability of multicast routing by adding a "scope" field to multicast addresses; and using a new "anycast address" to send a packet to any one of a group of nodes. As in other Syngress books, this one makes a complex subject accessible by including appendices, summaries, extensive art, and detailed indexes. This book should have been there in your shelf!
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Summary: Great for Beginners
Review: This book has answered questions I have had for a long time. A great read for those of you who are lost in the maze of TCPIP. Very clear and complete. Great section on routing protocols for beginners.
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Summary: Solid Reference for Things IP
Review: This is a must-have book for whoever wish to understand the concept of IP addressing; from ground up to intermediate level. Highly focused and concise.
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Summary: Simple, unambiguous, and clear!!
Review: This is a must-have book for whoever wish to understand the concept of IP addressing; from ground up to intermediate level. Highly focused and concise.
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Summary: As clear as you can POSSIBLY MAKE IP ADDRESING
Review: This is an awesome job of clearly explaining and troubleshooting most of the key IP issues. I bought it primarily for the coverage of NAT and it was thorough. If you've tried to figure this stuff out based on reading RFC, this book will be a relief.
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