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Mobile IP: The Internet Unplugged

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This is indeed written in a clear understandable style that takes you from the problem to the proposed solution in an understandable progression. It is the only book I've found on the subject that I would recommend, and I've read them all. Working as an engineer on the system he briefly gives as an example, it is the book I recommend to all our engineers getting involved in Mobile IP for the first time. If you are looking for something to tell you what mobility in a network environment means, this is the one. Unlike some others, "no previous experience required" here.

If you want to understand mobile-IP this is the book for you. So many books these days seem to be written merely to demonstrate how smart the author is (compared to the hapless reader) -- not this book. The explanations are exceptionally clear. Especially strong on the security impacts of mobile-IP.

I found this book useful as my introduction to IP network communications (network layer). My background is not in networks but I was able to pick up this book and learn about; Routers, IP addresses and their assignments, Tunneling, Encapsulation, TCP/IP, Security issues, and Mobile IP to the extent that I understand the steps involved when a Mobile IP node moves from one link to another.

I have read many technical books/papers and most most of them clutter and disjoint ideas. Not this book. This book is methodical, orderly, clear and written in plain English. I think you will like it.

As an additional bonus, the book spends some time (10 pages) with an overview of TCP and explains why TCP works better over land lines than wireless media. There is a discussion of the problems processing real-time data over IP and proposes solutions.

I am an average reader and it took me approximately 30 hours to read the 300 pages over a period of five weeks. The book leaves out detail but references the IETF papers for the interested reader. The book had NO word "misspells" nor sentence "misspeaks". (I always notice those things.) There are great diagram sketches for example discussions.

The author was the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) co-chair of the Mobile IP working group and led the group to a deployable solution. The book explains that because he was involved since 1994 he understands the trade-offs and issues.

Great book. Beautifully written, clearly explained, and well organized. I even liked the figures which had a uniform pleasant look unlike a lot of the Internet and computer related books. I have bought and thrown away many books written about the Internet protocols so this book was a breath of fresh air. Instead of cutting and pasting bunch of stuff available in various places, this author actually really presented the subject in a cohesive manner. You can tell he knows his stuff and he took the time to present it.

This book is not only a great way to learn about mobile IP but to learn about security, IP in general, etc. If you already know a little about those topics, this book will be easy to read and it will even give you new insights in those areas. If you never knew what a MAC or link address was or how TCP/IP worked this book might be a miss for you.

This book joins the list of great books like Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated" or Seifert's "The Switch Book."

I have an older edition of the book. I would commend it as highly understandable and eminently readable. While it could be a little less "wordy", I would much rather prefer that, than the style of most engineering authors, who seek to transpose the elegant and concise notation of abstract mathematics or symbolic logic or even programming code, to engineering text, with disastrous results, with little scrutiny from their editors/publishers. There is good balance and close knit between text and diagrams/illustrations. I am disappointed that the original has not been updated in newer editions, expanding on IPv6 and newer developments.

Jose Oscar Noronha - New Jersey

Yes, this book is for the beginners or intermediates at best. But that is enough, since if I am going to write code for a product, no book is good enough, that is why we have standards.

I have never gone through a book so fast ever (8 hours for the stuff that I needed to know), well this is an interesting topic and also the book is quite easy to understand also, so that helped.

I never understood the OSI reference model so well including the famous book from William Stallings on datacomm, the author's description on the OSI reference model is right on and very practical. Read multiple books on datacom and no one explains what is proxy and gratuitous ARP like Solomon.

Mobile IP in itself is not a very deep subject and that is why the author develops it slowly and ends it with security and applications. Towards the end, the book does get a little advanced with the applications that mobile IP supports.

I do get a feeling that the author is more or less dumping his knowledge that he has acquired from chairing the mobile IP development comittee.

This is what the author is attempting to do:
1. Prepares the reader for mobile IP with OSI layers.
2. Why Mobile IP: with good justifications.
3. How Mobile IP: again with good explainations.
4. security
5. applications

Very satisfied.

Yes, this book is for the beginners or intermediates at best. But that is enough, since if I am going to write code for a product, no book is good enough, that is why we have standards.

I have never gone through a book so fast ever (8 hours for the stuff that I needed to know), well this is an interesting topic and also the book is quite easy to understand also, so that helped.

I never understood the OSI reference model so well including the famous book from William Stallings on datacomm, the author's description on the OSI reference model is right on and very practical. Read multiple books on datacom and no one explains what is proxy and gratuitous ARP like Solomon.

Mobile IP in itself is not a very deep subject and that is why the author develops it slowly and ends it with security and applications. Towards the end, the book does get a little advanced with the applications that mobile IP supports.

I do get a feeling that the author is more or less dumping his knowledge that he has acquired from chairing the mobile IP development comittee.

This is what the author is attempting to do:
1. Prepares the reader for mobile IP with OSI layers.
2. Why Mobile IP: with good justifications.
3. How Mobile IP: again with good explainations.
4. security
5. applications

Very satisfied.

Yes, this book is for the beginners or intermediates at best. But that is enough, since if I am going to write code for a product, no book is good enough, that is why we have standards.

I have never gone through a book so fast ever (8 hours for the stuff that I needed to know), well this is an interesting topic and also the book is quite easy to understand also, so that helped.

I never understood the OSI reference model so well including the famous book from William Stallings on datacomm, the author's description on the OSI reference model is right on and very practical. Read multiple books on datacom and no one explains what is proxy and gratuitous ARP like Solomon.

Mobile IP in itself is not a very deep subject and that is why the author develops it slowly and ends it with security and applications. Towards the end, the book does get a little advanced with the applications that mobile IP supports.

I do get a feeling that the author is more or less dumping his knowledge that he has acquired from chairing the mobile IP development comittee.

This is what the author is attempting to do:
1. Prepares the reader for mobile IP with OSI layers.
2. Why Mobile IP: with good justifications.
3. How Mobile IP: again with good explainations.
4. security
5. applications

Very satisfied. Why dont authors like him write more books that people can understand and may be we have a choice of not having to read the stallings books all the time on every topic.

I found the book easy to read and also technical. It is one of the very few books that I have liked to read. I would strongly recommend this book to any one who is new to Mobile IP.

The book provides both: an excellent overview for a beginner in this field in an easy understandable way and a complete reference for anybody who wants to know all the details about current solutions, problems and the ongoing work. The application of mobility is handled from different perspectives (Campus view, Internet-Wide view, Service Provider view) with increasing complexity concentrating on security issues. By the way: the security primer in this book is one of the best I have ever seen compared to many books dealing with security issues only. Also for anybody who is interested in Virtual Private Networks this book is a wonderfull supplement.