Customer Reviews

The NAT Handbook: Implementing and Managing Network Address Translation

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I picked up the book hoping to learn stuff about NAT that I didn't already know. Unfortunately, I found that I was reading a lot about basic concepts that anyone who is going to use NAT should already know. Sections about the IP protocol and TCP headers! At one point, the author says ARP is part of the invisible data link operations. Who is going to use NAT and not know about ARP??? Most of the book is about 5 main points about NAT rehashed over and over again. NAT is pretty simple; if Kernighan & Ritchie could get away with a book a quarter of the size of the NAT book, Dutcher (the auther of NAT Handbook) must have gotten paid by the page.

Very overpriced, this book is just a set of repetitive 'advice'.
A lot of errors make it unreliable. I can't understand why the author keeps affirming that the 'DNS TCP port' is port 43 !!, unbelievable from a [pricey]book (from any book indeed !).
Not a single worthy 'real example' but only two trivial 'case studies' full of 'advice' with no details.
Lost my money.

This book is way vague. No specific examples, mainly lengthy hot air explinations of the theory of NAT. For (price) bucks, I would rather have bought a Cisco specific handbook. If you do NAT at work and need a few pointers and pratical solutions, this book is not for you.

If it was on Survivor, it would have been voted off the first day.

The authors starts the books by explaining the concepts behind NAT and why it is actually required and he explains the Concept behind the nat . Explanation of Static and dynamic NAT is easily understandlabe one. Esp the case studies quite useful , which will help us to directly implement the nat without any issues.

It also clarifies the routing issues afeter implementing NAT.

Simply Superb.