Customer Reviews

TCP/IP Explained

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This book covers just about every facet of tcp/ip in a comprehensive fashion. Every protocol is covered separately and well illustrated. My only criticism so far is that I still have trouble understanding subnet masks, due to this book not actually giving an example other than the default 255.255.255.0 etc. - a trap that every networking book I have read seems to fall into (although that may say more about me than the book!). Definitely worth purchasing for its authoritative feel - I'm sure you could trust it implicitly - though maybe a tad heavy-going for the beginner. Only misses out on 5 stars because I'm still confused about the point I mentioned and I might need another book to help me yet...

The book is thorough, but we have RFCs for that ... The author keeps flooding the reader with details (e.g. port numbers, sizes, addresses) even when trying to explain principals. There should be better seperation between high level concepts and implementation details that does not exist in this book (and does in other books). Also, a lot of the diagrams are meaningless, and it seemed to me a lot of the times they were here only to make the book thicker. Most of the examples are trace of packets, which are difficult to follow. High level flow examples are missing.

This book has been my ultimate reference for TCP/IP for the past several years, and is very comprehensive. It is about as complete as can be expected given the publication date. However, it is not a book for beginners in any way shape or form. If analyzing TCP/IP is your business, or you need a good desk reference for TCP/IP, then I would highly recommend this book. I only wish more books were written with this level of detail.

This book covers most every facet of TCP/IP. The information presented was comprehensive and unfortunately, somewhat dry. There is a lot of technical data and information provided within this book which made the reading is a tad heavy. I experienced some difficulty reading and comprehending the information because the print is of 8 and 9 pica, which is very small and somewhat difficult to read under most circumstances. The chapter summaries are also the author's opinions and are not actual summaries of the information within that chapter. Subnet masking could have been more throughly explained as I, my fellow classmates and my instructor desired. This book could definitely use a larger print. I like the book, but gave it 3 stars mostly because of the print size.

This book is one of the best books I have read. It goes straignt to the fundamentals of what each protocol is designed to do and gives you the values the protocol uses to acheive this aim. Basicaly if the functionality is in the packet headder it is discussed in this book. It requires a basic knowledge of the principles, but provides enough information that once you have read it, you will understand any value a packet decoder can produce. It also provides a simple but effective packet decode at the end of each section so you can actualy see the protocols in action.