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Summary: Decent, well-written beginner book
Review: This book does a good job of getting you started with configuring Cisco routers. It mainly covers the 2500-series, although it mentions higer-end models as well. It covers all the main routing protocols and provides quite a few practical tips & tricks (i.e. how to recover a router to which you lost the passwords), and makes interesting reading for beginners and decent albeit limited reference for pros. If there were many books on this topic the $50 price would be outrageous, but that not being the case makes it ok.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: This book does not provide the theory behind the technology and will not prepare you for certification either. It shows you how to do a few things that the "author" wants to show you and NEVER goes into detail about them. The author will "see little point" in going into something and tell you nothing about it. This book is definitely a beginner level that will not drown you.
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Summary: Perfect for Beginners to Accomplished Administrators
Review: This book gives a great description of all of the IGP's and gives a good basis for people who have never touched a Cisco. The lab(s) showed some pretty good theory and I found that even for having known a great deal about routers I learned significantly more from this book. Great reading from cover to cover!
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Summary: Best Technical book ever crossed my way
Review: This book has actually helped me again and again to solve routing problems across our campus. The writer brings a clear sharp picture of the routing world and how to implement it using Cisco routers. To the auther I can say: "Thank you, and I'm looking forward to your next book !"
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Summary: This is a very nice book
Review: This book have a good graphics for understanding TCP/IP and Routing Concepts Well, I recommand to not using english people for internetworking works
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Summary: A Great Book to get started with Routers.
Review: This book was a great book. However I wanted more labs, more commands to be illustrated. Author should have used a later version of the IOS for their illustrations.
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Summary: Great book for Systems Engineers
Review: This is one great book that helped me and a colleague configure our Cisco 2500 series routers with only a little bit of experience with routers. I'm also using this book as a study guide to obtain a pass on the new CCNA exam. I'm currently a CNE and working towards my MCSE. I highly recommend this book for its clear explanations of the OSI model, IP Addressing and Routing protocols. It's also a good book to use as a reference.
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Summary: As Good As it Gets
Review: To have rate this book anything less than 5 stars would be grossly unfair. Chris Lewis has displayed a brilliance in his book seldom see in other authors, and only for very few times in my life have I experienced such inspirational writing. Chris use brilliant examples, and many of them, to illustrate how things work - or fail. Warn you about possible disaster like p.48 where you might have to physically replace all routers when hacker strike ( how, Chris? Give us hints. ), use a lot of SHOW commands and tell you what to pay attention to, point out important concept like "Frame Relay is a layer 2 protocol and does not understand the concept of network number" when other authors seem only eager to tell you the IOS command to setup a frame relay network, give useful suggestions and insightful knowledge that you can talk like a veteran WAN/CISCO engineer in front of customer, nice historical perpective like "RARP originally was designed for diskless workstation that has no place to store an IP address". When other author stopped after telling you the IOS command to setup IPX routing, Chris tell you " it is only now that the real works begins in order to get ipX routing work efficiently over variety of network media", and tell you SAP update is more of a concern that RIP updates - such insightful knowledge that can reduce hours of frustrated work. Thanks Chris, for this impressively brilliant book, and if writing one book did not scare you enough, can you please write at least a couple more. Drop me an email and I will buy it before the ink is dry.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: Very good reference for begineers , has surprisingly good information on DLSW and other IBM related bridging functions. a good book to purchase if considering ICRC or ACRC , definately worth fifty buck$$ .
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Summary: Excellent Book for New and Intermediate Cisco Router Admins
Review: When I first browsed this book , I was disappointed. It seemed like another book with too much introductory material and not enough substance. After reading the book in detail, I have radically changed my opinion. I now feel that this is probably the best introductory/intermediate level book on using Cisco routers available. About 25 % of the book is introductory material. While this is probably superfluous to most network administrators, it serves as the framework that the author uses to teach the beginning Cisco administrator how to connect to the router and how the Cisco command line works. It shows networking from a Cisco-centric viewpoint and the gory details of Cisco hardware needed for practical networking. The author then progresses to TCP/IP configuration, routing protocol configuration, legacy protocol support and WAN configuration. The final 40% of the book discusses practical network design and troubleshooting. One of the great strengths of this book is the line by line configuration examples and the detailed explanation of what each command/line accomplishes. There is quite a bit of information packed into this book. If you are new to Cisco routers or need material that is much more accessible than the Cisco documentation, then this book is for you. The only reason I gave this book a 9 instead of a 10 is that I would like to have seen much more information on routing protocols. It is still a fine book.
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