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Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference (Microsoft Technical Reference)

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I've been using TCP/IP for longer than I care to remember. Over the years, I've seen two kinds of TCP/IP books - pure technical detail, and administrative trivia (more dialog box shots than actual text)

This book is exactally what it says it it is: a great technical reference. The book works through the layers in the TCP/IP stack in a ethodical and logical way. Each layer in the TCP/IP model is cleanly and clearly described and well illustrated by network traces (which are all included to be on the CD).

So far, I've not found ANY mistakes (unlike some other 1st editions of TCP/IP books). I only wish the author had been able to do more (eg RADIUS, QOS0. Naybe the author can write a volume 2. And if he does - I'd buy it!

I bought this book based on the reviews here, and I sure got my money's worth. Who knows, maybe I'll meet the author one day.

Ken

It's a useful technical reference for IP, TCP and related protocols. As a reference work I have not read through it so can't judge the accuracy of the details. But it is just the kind of no nonsense reference I need.

This book provides a very good study of TCP/IP in the context of Windows 2000. While the authors' style in on the dry side (How do you make this stuff exciting?); this is a VERY good book. The resource kit does have a book dealing with TCP, but its discussion is at a higher level - how is TCP/IP implemented in Windows 2000. The view there is from Windows to TCP/IP. This is a more general TCP/IP book with the emphasis from TCP/IP to Windows 2000. As a technical instructor and Windows NT and 2000 administrator, I refer to this book for low level disscusions of the protocol to clarify and explain the behavior of my systems.

Why read RFC's, white papers, and boring technical papers? Because until this book that was the only way to disseminate excellent information on a very important subject. TCP/IP is the protocol suite, and Thomas Lee makes it all make sense.

The input of the other authors Laura Robinson and Joe Davies make this complete volume worth twice the price.

This book will go proudly between Comer and Albitz & Liu on my bookshelf. Those are some pretty big pages to fill, but this book delivers.

It's all about quality.

After reading just a few pages I flew with my book over 1000 miles to have Thomas Lee sign my it at a Microsoft Professional Trainer Conference. He was very nice about signing it and signed others who purchased it at the conference as well. In fact, they sold out in the first couple of days of the conference. No wonder after you pick it up to look at it, you just can't put it down. I just wish I could of had Laura sign it too.

I was looking for a book that really got in depth with TCP/IP and picked up this one. Excellent choice. Before buying this book, note that it is not a "how to" book and does not cover topics such as implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting TCP/IP applications such as DNS, WINS, IIS Services, etc, but it does give you a very detailed description of how and why each service works as it does (to include a byte-by-byte reference for each protocol).

If you need to get your feet firmly entrenched in Win2K's implementation of TCP/IP, this is the book.

This is no study guide. If you are looking for a book to *teach* you TCP/IP, this isn't it. This is a solid, no-holds-barred reference work for the person who needs the depth of information that the study guides will never supply.

If you are a professional who works with Windows 2000, you will need this work on your shelf next to Comer, Stevens, Liu, and Albitz.

Hats-off to Thomas lee, Joseph Davies, and Laura Robinson for putting together a fine work.

The book is a good technical reference for TCP/IP but NOT for windows 2000 TCP/IP. By it's title I think one would expect that the book explains about the implementation of TCP/IP in win2k i.e the data staructures used, the way buffers managed etc. BUT this book is nothing but almost RFCs rewritten! , one can as well read RFCs which are available for free or there are 1000 other well written books for protocols. To summerize, the "microsoft windows 2000" on the top of the books title is irrelevent and misleading the buyer.

MCSE certification is changing and trying to keep up is a nightmare. Books that were current for the MCSE 4 track are being dropped at the end of the year and replaced by the MCSE 2000 track. TCP/IP is also changing and this book helps you pass the exam and get ready for the changes at the same time.

In the 500 plus page book you'll get information about LAN technologies, ARP, IP basics, addressing, routing, IMCP, IGMP UDP and TCP, WINS, IIS, file and print sharing, VPN and the latest information about the IP Version 6.

The book covers the exam objectives in great detail and gives you the best possible chance of passing the new and upcoming exam. Packed with tables, figures, diagrams and pictures this book should be all you need in order to pass an already difficult exam.

The book includes a cd-rom, which as a book companion. What are missing are a practice test cd and more hands on examples to work with. Overall the information is well worth the $49.99 price tag and once again Microsoft Press leads the way!

As a junior windows 2000 network administrator when I first purchased this book I needed a reference with easy to understand information but technical enough to help me with my everyday task. After reading this book I went from barely knowing how TCP/IP worked in a Windows 2000 environment to knowing how each type of ethernet frame was made thanks to the extremely well explained (and detailed) schemas. The IP routing chapter is also very well written and explained. The book also comes with a CD which contains all the network monitor traces for the examples in this volume. I personally can't wait for the .net version of this book comming later this year...Congradulations on a well written book to Thomas Lee and Joe Davies!

Windows 2000 does not require NetBIOS for SMB/CIFS. That is why it's not covered as a "requirement". It simply isn't.