TCP/IP Protocol Suite (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking) [Hardcover]

Behrouz Forouzan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072967722 | ISBN-13: 978-0072967722 | Publication Date: January 6, 2005 | Edition: 3

Networking technologies have become an integral part of everyday life, which has led to a dramatic increase in the number of professions where it is important to understand network technologies.

TCP/IP Protocol Suite teaches students and professionals, with no prior knowledge of TCP/IP, everything they need to know about the subject. This comprehensive book uses hundreds of figures to make technical concepts easy to grasp, as well as many examples, which help tie the material to the real-world.

The second edition of TCP/IP Protocol Suite has been fully updated to include all of the recent technology changes in the field. Many new chapters have been added such as one on Mobile IP, Multimedia and Internet, Network Security, and IP over ATM. Additionally, out-of-date material has been overhauled to reflect recent changes in technology.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Forouzan Behrouz Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, De Anza College, California --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 3 edition (January 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072967722
• ISBN-13: 978-0072967722
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,107,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The simplest book on TCP/IP, January 3, 2001

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Atul Kahate (Pune, India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Hardcover)

There is no doubt that apart from Douglas Comer's three-volume set, this is the best book to learn TCP/IP. Behrouz has simply created magic, with his usual liberal use of diagrams and tables to explain complex topics with ease.

I would strongly recommend this book for those who want to learn TCP/IP at a conceptual level in addition to Comer. However, if you want to go to the internals, this may not be the right book for you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clearly Written so even I could Understand it., April 20, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TCP/IP Protocol Suite (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking) (Hardcover)

TCP/IP is the language of the Internet and this book is its grammer. Although I think this book was intended primarily to be a college textbook, I'm not in school. I just was assigned a project to do some software requiring a direct interface to TCP/IP. I found this book to be exactly what I needed.

The book uses a very visual approach that allows you to quickly find the subject areas you need. Then the key points are put into boxes, kind of like someone has gone through with a hi-lighter to emphasize the critical points. These enabled me to skip rapidly through the points I knew about to get to the areas where I needed detail.

This book further is one of the best written and more clearly describes this rather technical subject in clear English words that even a simple programmer can understand.

This is the third edition, it covers some of the newer protocols like SCTP. Exceeding well done book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great in-depth explanation of the different TCP/IP protocols!, September 15, 2007

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J. Cornutt "Comatose but audible" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TCP/IP Protocol Suite (Hardcover)

Just recently, I began writing network drivers for my custom Operating System and found myself a little in-the-dark about the proper format for a TCP/IP packet. This book proved to be a great read, and also an extremely useful reference later on.
Two thumbs up.