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

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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.

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.

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.

This may be the best textbook I have ever used. The text is concise and to the point with no extra "fluff". The illustrations are fantastic. The author has spent a tremendous amount of time on these... they take you directly to the meaning of the text, and give a strong visual and intuitive foundation to what has been written. Example problems with answers are numerous, and seem to be placed at exactly the points where you need to stop and work through concepts with pencil and paper. I really can't say enough about this text, I've read it cover to cover. It imparts an amazing amount of technical information without being dry... again, I think it's the illustrations that are so helpful, and it's nice that the author's style is direct and not wordy. I don't think you can buy a better TCP/IP book, this one's worth twice the price.

I had to use this book for a graduate course. It has been very suitable for this purpose. The level of details is good, but not to the point of a protocol standard. If you need to master the concepts and do not want to refer to very superficial practical references or detailed standards this book is right in the middle. Lecturers will find it very appropriate and students will easly grasp the concepts. One can still use some parts of the book as a reference. If the required information is not there some of the references to RFCs and standards will guide the reader to more information elsewhere.

This is a book with excellent content. The materials are very well written and explained. However, there are some typos that really make me wonder how much I can trust the explainations!

I read this book last year as a part of my course. I found it was very easy to understand, and later I used it as my revision book when I want to revise some concepts. I also put this book onto my shelf for later use.

For me, at the first time, I have no experience or any knowledge about TCP/IP. After I finished this book, I know more a lot.

This Forouzan's work is a noble one. He used a very understandable way to explain what they are. So this book are suitable for a undergrad student or whom that has no idea in TCP/IP

I consider myself very fortunate to be one of the first few to have a copy of this book (draft copy that is sold at DeAnza College Bookshop). I fully recommend this book as it starts from the basics and covers all aspects of TCP/IP. I understand that the published version of this book will cover a few additional topics. I am really looking forward to reading this book. An essential book for everyone interested in TCP/IP. Also an EXCELLENT reference book.

D.L Rao Lecturer SPAS University of the South Pacific PO Box 1168 Suva Fiji

I had this book lying around with me for a very long time but never bothered reading it, because my graduate school textbook was something else. But when I eventually ended up reading it, i did regret how I missed out on this genius of a book, for so long. This book is way ahead of other books in its league. The material explained are illustrated very beautifully that there would be no place where you will find it difficult to follow the book. Fantastic book, i highly recommend it to anyone who want to understand TCP/IP.

If you are considering Comer Vol 1 or Richard stevens Vol 1 for TCP/IP , I would advise you give this book a serious thought too. Preferably goto a local bookstore to check them out and make a decision.

If you want to quickly learn/revise TCP/IP for an interview, this is a great book too because lots of times the self-explanatory illustrations saves you a lot of time from reading the material itself.

As a beginner, this book can deliver a full and clear picture about details of TCP/IP including each protocol alogorithm, characteristics and it's usage. One can easily understand the TCP/IP basic architecture even without any experience after reading.