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IP Switching and Routing Essentials: Understanding RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE

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I purchased this book and returned it, not because it was a bad book, it wasn't. As a matter of fact had I not purchased a MPLS book already or owned the Moy OSPF book. O would have kept it. It is a good book that covers all the required routing protocols, albeit not in enough detail. The book always left me short on detail, I still had questions after I would read a section.

So once again I would say that this is a good book but not a great one. If you are looking for some basics on RIP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS then this is a good book. If you are looking for more detail, like why do ILEC's have IBGP and OSPF running on the same router, and how are these routing protocols used in networks today with some real examples, then look somewhere else.

Cheers!

The documentation of switching and routing in IP networks was very complete and well illustrated. The book also described the concepts in the context of real world applications. Definitely lives up to its "essential" title.

I purchased the Kindle version so I could read it on multiple devices and the digital conversion is HORRIBLE! Illustrations often end up separated from the text describing them, but far worse the grey box breakouts are almost unreadable!!! The scans of the text in the gray boxes are harder to read than the captcha phrases websites use to verify that you're human! On top of that the illustrations were scanned at a low enough resolution that they are rough to look at. They're generally functional, but way harder to read. If you're thinking about this book, I'd avoid the ebook version sadly.

So far the content of the book has been like a college text book. Not great to read but does a decent enough job of getting the point across.

This book really gets down to the nitty-gritty of delivering data on the Internet. It covers numerous protocols, including Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Constraint-based Label Distribution Protocol (CDL-DP), and the Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering Extensions (RSVP-TE). This book tells you what you need to know.