Hands-On TCP/IP

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Summary: Reference material
Review: If you're new to TCP/IP networking, look elsewhere. The material is dry and not presented in an educational material.

However, if you need a good reference to various aspects of this subject, it's pretty good. Some of the material is slightly out-of-date, but for the most part, it serves well when there's a small detail that's bugging you, or you need to just refresh your memory about something.

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Summary: Here's the world's best bit-and-byte-level guide to TCP/IP!
Review: Teach yourself all about the dynamic TCP/IP suite. This package makes it easy! For network administrators, here is the world's best bit-and-byte-level guide to working with the TCP/IP suite. Based on the leading international hands-on TCP/IP course (rated as ``excellent'' by almost 10,000 attendees), it goes beyond theory and specifications to show you how TCP/IP really works. . .what tasks each protocol should do. . .and how those tasks get done. Use this book/CD-ROM package as a self-study tutorial or a desktop reference. Either way, you'll find: a truly hands-on approach that applies to your daily work; in-depth coverage of IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol; excellent troubleshooting material exercises with data from the author's real-world experiences; hard-fo-find protocol analysis tools and files of data collected from working networks (on the accompanying CD-ROM); sample decoded messages, segments, packets, and sessions to use in place of the protocol analysis data or to support your ongoing explorations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Simoneau is president of NeuroLink, Ltd., an international consulting, research, and education company that services such clients as Cisco, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, US West, the U.S. Armed Forces, Hewlett-Packard, and Sprint. He is also a senior instructor and course director for American Research Group, the systems and communications training company that pioneered the course on which this book/CD-ROM package is based,

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Summary: Tools to empower your future.
Review: This book and it's unique CD make the "magic" of the TCP/IP protocols much easier to understand. It is as close to the world-leading American Research Group course as I can offer without being in the classroom with you.

Those of you who have been in the course know the reference and review value offered by this book and it's special CD.

A careful study of both the book and the CD will improve your knowledge of TCP/IP from subnetting to IPv6 to applications. That time investment will also increase your career skills and value to your organization and the job market just as it has for thousands of others.

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Summary: If I could have only 1 TCP/IP book -- THIS WOULD BE IT!!
Review: This is the best SINGLE source of TCP/IP info. This text covers all important aspects of TCP/IP and does not skimp on detail.

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Summary: Not for the beginners
Review: When I bought this book two years ago, I had no knowledge of TCP/IP networking. Some of the topics particularly subnetting, were not well explained and confusing. Now that I know subnetting quite well, I think the author made it too complex for such an easy subject. This book is more for engineers who deals with product development such as routers, switches, etc. Think again in buying this book if you're a beginner.

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Summary: This is the book to buy!
Review: Whether you know nothing, or everything about TCP/IP, this is the best book. If you have no or a very basic knowledge of TCP/IP, this book will explain everything in great detail from scratch. If you consider yourself an expert, this book is still a great reference. I have gone back to this book over and over again for reference material. If you work with TCP/IP, this book should be considered required reading.