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Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

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If you somehow developed a great interest in the internetworking even though not working in that field, I'd recommand you to read THIS book to get started.

I did feel sorry that I wasted lots of time on the other 3 books I read when I started to explore internetworking. Those give me only good pieces of details about the layers, the protocols, and some parts of internetworking technology, but unclearly or loosely relate them to each other.

If you are a kind of person who's always trying to draw the big picture first with the relationships of the components among each other, and then fit in more-detailed pieces, I bet you'll be very saitisfied by this super book. You would agree that it makes sense of the parts of internetworking to the whole, and makes sense of other loosely organized books on the same topic to you, provided that you didn't ignore the importance of the first two chapters (or days' materials).

Another beauty of the book is that the details are given gradually with a very careful selection, so that you'll never get burried in the details but only controls over them. Thanks.

This book is quite dated now. It does cover the basics of TCP/IP and goes in quite a lot of detail.

I found that the books covered several areas that I wasn't very interested in eg Gateway Protocols, Network File System etc.

This books does not cover Windows or Linux so may not be very useful in todays computing environment. However if you can pick up a cheap copy then it may be worth adding to your library for later reference.

Got it, read it, understood it with no problems, and keep it always handy as a reference. Really complete, and just enough informative - never boring, as some protocol-specific technical books I've read.

This book does not do a good job at its most important task - explaining things well. It would certainly not be a good first book on the subject and the technical information is not in-depth enough to make it a good second book on the subject either. Also, its a bit dated, the Windows NT examples are based on NT version 3.51.

Far less patronizing than "Dummies..", and not as matter-of-fact as "Internetworking..", this book provides solid fundemental material for developing understanding of TCP/IP. It even provides tests at the end of each chapter. While one shouldn't expect to be an expert at TCP/IP after 2 weeks, one will have a very good understanding of this protocol, its relationship to the OSI model, and its application in contemporary networks. Very highly recommended.

This book is poorly written, poorly organized and is full of errors. Don't waste your money on it. The glossary is inadequate, the index is no better, and the author uses acronyms without telling you about them. I found over 50 errors in the first half of the book. I would not recomment it to anyone. Surely there are better products on the market.

Books is focused around Unix based TCP/IP commands - so if your in need of how Microsoft interacts with TCP/IP on a daily basis, this title might fall short for you.

Now, when I already know a few things, I can honestly say the book is simply bad. I went through the chapters describing IP addressing and hardly understood the explainations. And that, considering my background in this area, is a bad sign. The descriptions built in a very confusing way. The way one programmer tells to another what he knows instead of teaching the subject. It seems that being targeted to the beginner audience, the book clearly misses the point. For intermediate and higher readers, there is nothing really new or useful in it. I'm sure there are better ones.

TCP/IP has been a constant ingredient in my work for a few years now, and although I am no stranger to TCP/IP, this book has been an invaluable help to me.

It has helped me fill the gaps in my understanding of the basics of TCP/IP. I assume, that like me, many people have to deal with nontrivial TCP/IP problems in their work, without ever having had the chance to sit down and learn the fundamental skills. This book does just that, and in a very effective way.

Many books cover the advanced topics, but very few deal with simply learning the stuff. This book is a fine little jewel.

Very few people make good teachers, including most of the characters in our school system today at all levels. Mastery of a subject must be coupled with communicating effectively at all levels of student understanding and this is where the author also fails MISERABLY. Sadly, Timothy is another typical member and example of the 'Lousy Teacher Club.' After reading the first chapter, I felt that I wasted two hours of time and as I usually do, I quickly embarked on a search for somebody who can clearly TEACH the subject. I left Timothy at the blackboard mumbling to himself and scooted over to IBM Redbooks with a consortium of world experts. I don't know whether they can teach or not; You'll have to check it out for yourself. For me, effective learning usually means lots of clearly displayed illustrative pictures and hands-on interactive teaching-aids together with typed discussion. I think the instruction should be in shorter chunks so the student isn't overwhelmed by any one lesson. Scott Mueller, another mumbling member of the 'Lousy Teacher Club', wrote an equally miserable book called "Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Eighth Edition." I dumped Scott's cumbersome writing style and found a great teacher named Charles K. with great coursework at PCGUIDE.COM. Great teachers usually follow one or two guidelines: SIMPLE IS BETTER and in the case of "typewriter-itis", LESS IS MORE.