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

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As you might imagine, Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 Days provides a rapid introduction to the TCP/IP protocols and to a few commonly used applications that are built on top of them. The discussion is very lucid and emphasizes the fundamental concepts behind a given protocol; it does a good job of not letting the mass of details obscure the reasoning. Each section ends with a quiz and series of questions (and answers), so you can test your knowledge of each topic. The book also includes useful sections on sample installations and a nice discussion of sockets. As an added bonus, the book's appendix contains an index that maps an application and/or a protocol to the appropriate RFC (Request for Comments) document. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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TCP/IP is crucial for network administrators and other information professionals. With this easy-to-understand, 14-day tutorial, users get an overview of TCP/IP, learning the basics from the ground up. "Teaches readers the fundamentals of TCP/IP. Uses a variety of teaching elements, including examples, syntax boxes, daily lessons, and review sections. Includes information on the software". Covers TCP/IP. -- Sams Pub.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Que Corporation,U.S. (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672305496
• ISBN-13: 978-0672305498
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,230,777 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Explained Network But Not Pieces, May 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) (Paperback)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but better books available., September 6, 2004

By	Ethann Castell "Lotus Notes and Domino guru a... (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, January 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Tcp/Ip in 14 Days (Sams Teach Yourself) (Paperback)

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.