Customer Reviews

IP Routing

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Technical books are often more difficult to understand than the topics they intend to explain. Frequent readers of computing manuals have learned that O'Reilly's books are clearer in organization than others without sacrificing detail. The manual on _IP Routing_, written by Ravi Malhotra, is one of the best manuals that O'Reilly has put out yet. Malhotra's writing is personable yet clear, his use of analogies abundant, and his topic organization impeccable. Malhotra is able to provide enough detail in the book to remain useful to an experienced network administrator while still appealing to those of us with only the most casual interest in Internet Protocol Routing. I found the chapter on "Border Gateway Protocol" especially well done. This book is a gem.

As a professional engineer, it is important for me to keep up to date with the latest in technology. For a learning tool to be effective not only is the subject matter important but the way in which the material is presented. I need to grasp the concepts quickly and retain that knowledge. I found Mr. Malhotra's "IP Routing" to be an excellent example of a well written learning tool. The subject matter is presented in a clear, articulate manner that was easy to follow and retained my interest from start to finish. I would highly recommend this book.

I was/am looking for a book on IP Routing. I can tell you this book is NOT for the beginner. It has no description on how IP addresses work or how subnets work. All it does is talk about the different protocols. This might be helpful once the reader understands the basics but not until then.

I don't see the point. There's not a lot that can be used or applied. Just reading generalizations and not offering anything near the amount of knowledge and usefulness as a book dedicated to this topic should.

Mr. Malhotra's book offers an exceptionally clear look under the hood of IP technology. As a director of the Center of Computer Technology in NYC, I am continually reading large numbers of books in many areas of the computer world. I only wish that all these books were as clarifying and effective as this one. The author knows how to communicate the methodology of IP technology in a way that offers insight to its workings. This book takes one deeper than the step-by-step approach, and advances the kind of substantial understanding that would benefit anyone desiring to become a valued professional. While this first edition has several typographical errors, they are insignificant beside the indisputable value of its top notch content, and its colorful, insightful delivery. This is easily a five star choice!

In the world of networking, both local and wide area, a good network administrator must understand what it takes to perform IP routing. The understanding of dynamic routing versus static routing, defining route and setting up the optimal network. In this manual you have over 200 pages to help that task.

I found that section for RIP, with convergence and route summarization to very helpful in my current job and it also gave me several tips and tricks to enhance my current network, which I have installed.

The book also covers IGRP, EIRGP, VLSM, BGP as well as explaining in good detail RIP2 classful versus classless routing techniques. In the OSPF protocol a breakdown of stub, totally stub and not so stubby have excellent breakdowns and for the first time I have a better understanding of the concepts.

The author breaks the book down into how the protocols work, what happens when they run, how to setup them up and troubleshooting in case of errors or failures by use of screen shots and commands.

There are some typos but that is normal with any manual, overall any network or router technician should be able to find useful information throughout the book.

As mentioned previously, if not for the errors this book would have been one of the best intros to IP Routing. It is clearly written and the coverage is pretty extensive for the page count. If you want to take it a step further to learn the IP routing protocols in detail, look at "Cisco IOS for IP Routing" by Andrew Colton. Jeff Doyle's books are great as well for the expert level.

The book seems good, however the errata really needs to be downloaded and applied to the text.
Some errors start on page 4 and the first two chapters need to be rechecked carefully.
Otherwise the books is good, clearly worded and explained, enjoyable and easy to read.
Check the errata on the publisher page before you attempt to read the book, or confusion will be great !
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Book does nice job of describing and breaking things down, i bought used and loved it, I recommed buy it. I also bought the illustrated network book and that is helpful too

This books has more than two hundred of errors (I did not count them, but you can print out the errata (about 13 pages) at o'reilley site), some quite serious.

It shows that this book is careless reviewed and prepared. Buy other books instead of this one since it is also outdated.