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Summary: OSPF overview
Review: great addition to any CCNP study guides as they tend to skimp over the technical details. This book fills in a lot of the details and helps make it all click.
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Summary: OSPF overview
Review: great addition to any CCNP study guides as they tend to skimp over the technical details. This book fills in a lot of the details and helps make it all click.
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Summary: This book is ideal for the Network Planner.
Review: I bought this book knowing that there was a minimal amount of OSPF, but hoping it would provide decent CCIE Prep. Don't Bet On It! This is NOT an advanced book by any stretch. If I had to use one word to summarize this book, it would be FLUFF! Advanced students don't waste your time on this book. Beginning students, there are better books available for you to purchase.
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Summary: The title is very misleading
Review: Overall I felt this book provided many good and well structured examples of an OSPF designed network. However, it became apparent immediately within the first few chapters that typo's abound. This may or may not be an issue for a person already familiar with OSPF and TCP/IP, but for those readers who are trying to acquire first hand knowledge of OSPF I would pass on this book until the reader was able to correctly identify, confirm and read through such inaccuracies. Too much time is wasted re-reading the text to determine if the reader "misunderstood" the text or if the text is inaccurate. Many of the inaccuracies are within the beginning chapters, including the diagrams and pictorials themselves.With these inaccuracies fixed and "proofread" this COULD be a first rate book. I find it very hard to believe that Cisco put their signature on this book. The Author did an excellent job of defining the scope and complexity of OSPF, but needs to provide a "concise and accurate" manual. As with most technical publications, books such as these end up being used as reference material. Therefore, a single mistake cannot be tolerated. It is NOT of the caliber of even the most basic Cisco Press training products (which serve double duty as first time reading material and future reference manuals). Buyer beware.
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Summary: Great Prep Guide for The CCIE Exam
Review: This book has a lot of material that is helping me prepare for the CCIE Exam. So, what if OSPF isn't 100% of the book. As long has the information is quality material. Dr. Parkhurst does a good job of laying the foundations for understanding OSPF. The exercises at the end of some of the chapters are very helpful. I would suggest that anyone preparing for the CCIE Exam buy this book!
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Summary: If you want an in-depth OSPF book, do NOT get this.
Review: This book is a nice reference to get a general overview of various routing protocols, but I don't know how it made it past the publisher with that title. I was expecting to get a very detailed OSPF book, but instead you only get a few chapters actually covering the protocol listed on the cover of this book.
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Summary: reasonable overview of routing protocols in general
Review: This is a good book.
Worthy of more than 3 stars, however the title isn't. The book covers most of the IGPs fairly competently, it simply isn't a hardcore OSPF book.
My advice, stick with Jeff Doyle routing TCP/IP vol 1 for Interior gateway protocols, and likewise for OSPF Design and implementation techniques.
But for a solid and brief overview at a good price, this book is definitely worth having.
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