Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals [Hardcover]

Cisco Systems Inc (Author), Mark McGregor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997 | Series: Cisco IOS Reference Library

This book is a comprehensive guide detailing available internetworking alternatives. It provides the reader with the most current technologies for WANS and teaches how to effectively implement these technologies on a network. After reading this book, administrators will possess a greater understanding of local and wide area networking and the hardware, protocols, and services involved. Hence, they will be able to make more intelligent, cost-effective and quantifiable networking decisions for their environment. The CISCO ISO Fundamentals will help readers perform their jobs at a higher level. It offers system optimization techniques, which will strengthen results, increase productivity and improve efficiency.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Cisco IOS, the software underpinning of Cisco's vast networking product line, can only be compared to Microsoft's Windows in terms of dominance and ubiquity. The first installment in Cisco's reference library, Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals, outlines both the role and features of IOS in excruciating detail. Definitely not for dummies, this book will appeal to networking professionals, who will appreciate the granularity of this high-tech bible, with its extensive notes and tables. With this book in hand, you can begin to milk vast amounts of the available functionality from your Cisco routers and access servers.

The mission of the first section is to get acquainted with IOS, from its so-called benefits to its various interfaces. However, to understand what's going on, you need to be well versed in networking lingo. The text is resplendent with references to ATM (asynchronous transfer mode), WANs (wide area networks), and TN3270 connections. One of the supreme ironies of this installment can be found in the section called "Using ClickStart, AutoInstall, and Setup," in which highly detailed instructions are given on ClickStart and AutoInstall--Cisco's stabs at user-friendly interfaces. This section also highlights a strength of the book--all the chapters are extremely task oriented with a "do this, then you'll see this; then do this" approach.

The last third of the book contains some of the most valuable information. The book features outstanding chapters on building systems to hide the underlying complexity of IOS and on managing the beast you have wrought. In-depth explanations of the Simple Network Management Protocol, the Network Time Protocol, error messages, and so forth, coupled with practical advice on how to approach the intricacies of your network, are beneficial for every grizzled systems administrator. In addition, three hefty appendices provide ASCII translation tables, a list of platforms that support Cisco IOS Release 11.2, and a vast array of references and recommended reading. --Sarah L. Roberts-Witt

From the Back Cover

This book is a comprehensive guide detailing available internetworking alternatives. It provides the reader with the most current technologies for WANS and teaches how to effectively implement these technologies on a network. After reading this book, administrators will possess a greater understanding of local and wide area networking and the hardware, protocols, and services involved. Hence, they will be able to make more intelligent, cost-effective and quantifiable networking decisions for their environment. The CISCO ISO Fundamentals will help readers perform their jobs at a higher level. It offers system optimization techniques, which will strengthen results, increase productivity and improve efficiency.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1400 pages
• Publisher: MacMillan Technical Publishing (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578700442
• ISBN-13: 978-1578700448
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,730,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals (Hardcover)

Excellent reference for Cisco IOS commands. If you are looking for an "Intro to Cisco config", then this isn't the book. If you are looking for a reference that explains every command in great detail, then this is the book for you. Sure this info is available on their website (with much searching), but with this book, you can lookup any command in seconds and find out the syntax, default, command mode, usage guidelines and examples very quickly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poorly indexed explaination of nearly every IOS 11.X command, February 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals (Hardcover)

The book is useful for learning every detail about IOS configuration from a command interface level. NO THEORY! It has enough detail that it's great for playing "stump the CCIE". The book has a lot of repeated portions, making for very hard reading. This book reads worse than your average technical reference manual. Most of this information is availible in cisco Documentation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally a easy reference to help me do my job!!!!, March 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals (Hardcover)

This book is excellent to keep by your desk for reference when you just don't recall the proper command. It is about some one starts publishing books that actually talk about the "how to" aspect of networking as opposed to theory so I disagreee with the other reviewer, No Theory IS GOOD you can get the theory from every corner bookstore. Finally something to help me do my job...