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Summary: Best network design book I've seen
Review: Another very impressive piece of work from Cormac Long. It's detailed, concise, to the point and is delivered in the author's typical "no holds barred" style. It brings the reader from the fundamentals of IP planning up to the finer points of advanced topics like OSPF, BGP and the optimization of VLANs and Spanning Tree. An excellent chapter on IP security is also included. This is one I'll keep as a reference for years to come.
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Summary: Good reference but difficult to read.
Review: I am interested in designing IP networks and got this book and a few others. This book assumes that you have an advanced working knowledge and are comfortable with hundreds of acronyms without a previous definition in the text or a glossary at the end.Chapter 4 Fundamental Routing Design should really be the first chapter since it introduces IP and how packets are routed. Buy this book if you need additional reference material on routing protocols. If you are interested in network design: Oppenheimer's Top-Down Network Design or McCabe's book Practical Computer Network Analyis and Design are recommended instead.
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Summary: Good reference but difficult to read.
Review: I am interested in designing IP networks and got this book and a few others. This book assumes that you have an advanced working knowledge and are comfortable with hundreds of acronyms without a previous definition in the text or a glossary at the end. Chapter 4 Fundamental Routing Design should really be the first chapter since it introduces IP and how packets are routed. Buy this book if you need additional reference material on routing protocols. If you are interested in network design: Oppenheimer's Top-Down Network Design or McCabe's book Practical Computer Network Analyis and Design are recommended instead.
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Summary: Extremely helpful. An intelligent book
Review: This is a really top-notch book on IP design. It starts with the basics but moves up to an advanced level covering a broad range of campus, WAN, routing and switching topics. The author shows an excellent understanding of the technology coupled with a keen insight of how the industry works. He also leaves you under no illusion as to what it takes to be a good design engineer. This is the kind of book that could change your career if you took the author's advice on board.
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Summary: Excellent treatment of the subject
Review: This is not only the best network design book I've read, it is probably the most educational IP networking book I've come across. The author leaves you under no illusions about the complexity of advanced IP designs and details the skills that are required. He shares his insights not only on the technology (something he does exceptionally well), but he also provides a good commentary on the Industry. Apart from being an excellent on the job reference, it's also a book worth consulting before doing your next job interview!
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Summary: Excellent work! Broad and insightful.
Review: This is the first design book that I have read where the author makes a real effort to share his considerable experience. There is a very intelligent description of the principles that must be followed when designing an IP network. Excellent detailed chapters follow on designing for EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs and IP Multicast technology. A 'must' for anyone aspiring to be successful working in Network Design or Support.
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Summary: Decent content, but McGraw-Hall ought to spring for editing
Review: Why didn't someone catch all the "author... need caption" captions that appear in here? Anyway, this could be a useful book if you already know about networking but don't really "get" routing, and especially Cisco routing. You'd need a lot more help, and knowing how Osborne/McGraw-Hill pushes books out the door (very fast and lightly edited, if that) I'm not sure I'd trust everything in here as gospel. I did find a good white paper that covers some of the same material from Cisco (called " Gigabit Campus Network Design--- Principles and Architecture"; I know there are others up there).
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Summary: Decent content, but McGraw-Hall ought to spring for editing
Review: Why didn't someone catch all the "author... need caption" captions that appear in here? Anyway, this could be a useful book if you already know about networking but don't really "get" routing, and especially Cisco routing. You'd need a lot more help, and knowing how Osborne/McGraw-Hill pushes books out the door (very fast and lightly edited, if that) I'm not sure I'd trust everything in here as gospel. I did find a good white paper that covers some of the same material from Cisco (called " Gigabit Campus Network Design--- Principles and Architecture"; I know there are others up there).
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