Customer Reviews

Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series)

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This is the best book I have seen in troubleshooting. Especially covering a tough topic like IP routing protocol. I particularly like the error message in each routing protocol. This allows me to understand the meaning of the error message that is not covered in any of the Cisco manuals. This saves me the trouble of calling Cisco TAC. This is a must book to have if you are in Network operations.

This is an excellent book to have. The flowcharts guide me through different problem scenerios, I have already solved many routing problems already using this book. If you want to be a network expert, I say this is a book that you must have.

CiscoPress's "Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols" by Shamim, Azis, Liu and Martey is mislabeled. CiscoPress has labeled this book as part of their `CCIE Professional Development' series - I really do not see the value of placing this book in the same vein as other CCIE books in the series (such as Doyle, Solie, & Clark). However, having been employed as a Network Administrator for a number of years, the book does help troubleshoot and isolate routing protocol issues.

Each major IGP (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF & IS-IS) along with PIM and BGP is discussed at depth. Each routing protocol is dedicated 2 chapters - one chapter discussing the protocol and one chapter discussing troubleshooting methodologies. The troubleshooting chapters start out with flow charts that can help isolate the issue. Too be honest though, the flow-charts are lacking in depth, and I found only helped verify simple routing issues. The book is also missing a much needed chapter on route redistribution.

There are not that many typos in the book. I give this book four stars as it takes a unique approach to troubleshooting routing protocol issues. However, I fail to find the reason this book needs to be on a CCIE's bookshelf.

I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
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This is an absolutely wonderful book to have. The flowcharts are easy to follow and it actually helps me to solve network problems for me. I am currently preparing for CCIE lab exam and I am sure this book will help me tremendously in the exam. Kudos to the authors who put this book together.

This is an excellent book. Its rare to see such a quality book available to network professionals. The flowcharts are easy to follow, the examples are relavent to everyday network problems. I used this book to solve a network down routing problem in my work. I noticed some mistakes on the book, however, consider the book of this size, mistakes are tolerable. The content of the book is simply outstanding. I recommend every network professionals to purchase this book.

I strongly disagree with the comments "Same old stuff and that its a cut n paste from the materials that are already out there" posted by one of the reviewer previously. How could someone read the whole book comprises of 846 pages in 2 weeks with true understanding of what Author is trying to convey.
Also I have been through half of the book in 3 weeks and its pretty help full is undertstanding in-depth nature of protocols and troubleshooting strategies to follow to nail them down in the real world scenario.I agree there is some common stuff that is already there but the best is that Authors try to convey the strategies to debug the problem in a logical manners.
At last I would rather say it is very easy to give comments rather than to take step and write that kinda book.

I have read a lot of networking books in the market. I must say, this is an awesome book that no books out there can compare. It opened my eyes to troubleshooting ip routing protocol. I am a level 3 networking support engineer and everytime I had a routing problem, I have to make the trouble of calling Cisco TAC. With this book, it saves me so much time in identifying the problem. I don't need to call TAC to solve my problem. I look good in front of my boss. Thanks Cisco Press for making this book available to us.

The previous reviewer is a tosser....this is a great reference to have handy. Has wonderful troubleshooting flowcharts. Too many books focus on design and configuration - with not enough emphasis on what to do when things go wrong (particularly with BGP). As a CCNP - i have found this a very worthy investment.

This book is so far is the best out there on troubleshooting IP routing protocols. If you want to learn the theory behind each modern routing protocol (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP), and therefore spend less time on troubleshooting in the first place, check out "Cisco IOS for IP Routing" by Andrew Colton. These two together should take you a long way to a good understaning of Cisco IP routing.

Absolutly the best book on the topic. Authors, thank you for making my troubleshooting life easier!!