Customer Reviews

Inside TCP/IP

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Do not buy this book if you are familiar with TCP/IP foundations or consider yourself any smart. It contains a lot of trivial diagrams and what can be explained in just a sentence often occupies a dozen pages. This makes the book very boring to read and impossible to use as a reference. It also does not cover anything except foundations, although the table of content looks very impressive.

I have just finished reading the book and found it sound and a good starting place for more advanced study.However it has faults that are quite annoying!

1.There are too many diagrams that are suppose to illustrate points that are perfectly clear in the text.

2.A LOT of misprints and typos.This actually helped me learn in a perverse way because I was forced to figure things out on my own.But it also had a cost in time.

3.No bibliography.

4.No glossary!

5.No answers to any of the exercises.This is quite helpful in self study.

Enough whining! Basically I liked the book.

I took Karanjit's class at Learning Tree and I have to say no one has been able to teach me subnetting like that before. His book is almost straight out of his class with much more detail. I would strongly suggest taking his class, but if you are unable, and are looking to get a solid understanding of TCP/IP, read this book. His credentials are impeccable, and his teaching style is, in my opinion, one of the best. I have taken some MCSE classes, and some other Internet classes, and have yet to learn as much from someone as I did from him.

I was looking for a book on TCP/IP and I ended up buying this one. I haven't regretted it! This must be the best book on TCP/IP I've ever read.

It covers the matters in depth and in great detail.
It explains what everything is and how it works.
It teaches you how to read a raw IP or TCP packet.

And it does all that using simple language that doesn't go over your head.

Furthermore, as opposed to other books covering the same topic, it doesn't assume you're using a Windows or Linux box. This was very important to me.

Though the language is easy to understand, it is not written for non-technical people.

this book is really good for IT Manager for troubleshooting tcp/ip protocols on the network! and very good for learn tcp/ip protocol! read this book won't wasting your time.

This book is both well-written and thorough. If you need an understanding that goes beyond the simple stuff required for Microsoft\Novell work, this is a great place to start.

This book covers all aspects of TCP/IP, and even a lot more about networking in general. Very good!

As far as im conserned, there need not be any other TCP/IP books!

I am responsible for a 50+ person intrusion detection mission, and I read this book in the spring of 1999. I bought this book for two reasons. First, I did not believe I was "ready" for Richard Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated" books. (That was probably not true.) Second, I was looking for a book with traces of network packets, linking an explanation to raw hex. After reading this book, Stevens' Volume 1, and Eric Hall's "Core Internet Protocols," I would not recommend Mr. Siyan's book, unless you plan to be an error detective. Like an earlier reviwer, I too spent a LOT of time discovering and correcting errors. While this did teach me some material in a "novel" way, I would not subject the introductory reader to such treatment. Now that Eric Hall's book has been published, readers can look for explanations and packet traces in a practically error-free book, rather than figuring it out themselves. (That removes reason 2 for buying the book.) Still, I do give "Inside TCP/IP" three stars for its good coverage of the protocol and useful diagrams. Buyer beware, however!