Cisco Switching Black Book: A Practical In-Depth Guide to Configuring, Operating and Managing Cisco LAN Switches

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Summary: Another Rave
Review: Look, this book is worth the price for the first chapter alone. I'm near completion of semseter 4 of the Cisco Adademy, and I found Odom's opening overview to be the most cogent and well written description of the subject I've read. I didn't buy the book to pass the CCNA (I'll have that handled with sybex and Cisco press) but rather because this book, and this writer, have the ability to seamlessly communicate the subject in a way that creates real understanding, placing sometimes disparate pieces of information into an understandable context. Do what you want, but I'd buy the thing..

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Summary: Outdated choice
Review: This book is completly out dated. it teaches you about ios options on a cisco 5000 and 1900... very poor choices considering they are completly different then what is on the market today.