TCP/IP Explained (Paperback)

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'A fine book about TCP/IP, covering all the layers, starting with an overview of the lowest 2 OSI layers, through IP (+ICMP), UDP, TCP, routing (RIP + OSPF + EGP + BGP), broadcasting and multicasting, DNS, SNMP, several apps (FTP, Telnet, SMTP....), with chapters about IPv6 and Internet Security. The book is readable, with lots of diagrams and packet trace decodes. -- Review

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'A fine book about TCP/IP, covering all the layers, starting with an overview of the lowest 2 OSI layers, through IP (+ICMP), UDP, TCP, routing (RIP + OSPF + EGP + BGP), broadcasting and multicasting, DNS, SNMP, several apps (FTP, Telnet, SMTP....), with chapters about IPv6 and Internet Security. The book is readable, with lots of diagrams and packet trace decodes." - Uri Raz, Uri's TCP/IP Resources List (www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press (March 5, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555581668
• ISBN-13: 978-1555581664
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,707,277 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough and comprehensive guide, October 20, 1998

By A Customer

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...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars high and low leveles mixed together, August 14, 2000

By	Erez Bashan (Israel) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TCP/IP for the Advanced Professional, December 7, 2002

By	Dennis E. Hogaboom (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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.