Cisco Press Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1

This book covers all IGP's in great detail. If you find yourself with questions about IGP's after reading this book then you have not read it properly. It also has an excellent question and answer section at the end of each chapter which I found brilliant. All in all probably the best Cisco book I've read so far. If you are involved in networking you simply have to have this book, end of.

Full disclosure, I haven't finished the book yet. I have read the Sybex CCNA books, Cisco CCNP related books and other books from Cisco Press on other topics, Security, VOIP etc. For an introduction to Cisco, the Sybex CCNA Study Guide by Todd Lammle I think is great, but I really needed something that would dig in and explain routing protocols in depth. Most of Cisco Press puts me to sleep after a few pages, but on the shelf or desk of just about every network engineer I work with is a copy of Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1 (1st Edition). That title seemed to be the defacto standard for all network engineers, and even some engineers that weren't network engineers, so I decided to pick up a copy only to be surprised that it had been updated with a second edition. I figured I'd start at the beginning, when a situation at work dictated that I jump into some specific routing protocols. I found that this book was what I was hoping it'd be. The authors explain things in such a way that the light bulb went off on the inner workings of the protocol. I found I was getting the in-depth knowledge I needed, not just a gloss over and how to configure the protocol at a basic level. The authors somehow manage to provide a wealth of information, without it just looking like they dumped the Cisco Whitepages on a page. It's definitely a technical book, but the information is provided in such a manner that you feel engaged and want to keep reading more. I'm currently going over OSPF, and there are approximately 80+ pages just going over the details of OSPF before the authors even get into how to configure OSPF. And that's just OSPFv2. There is a separate chapter for OSPfv3. It's a hefty book at approximately 800 pages, but the authors are really presenting a lot of material in a human readable format. Translation, you don't have to be a Uber Network Engineer to understand this book. To that I attribute the skill of the authors in relaying the information. I intend the read the full book, but for now I specifically need to concentrate on OSPF and BGP. (BGP is going to be covered in the soon to be released Routing TCP/IP, Volume 2 (2nd Edition) by the same authors and I'll be picking up as soon as it's out. If you are beyond CCNA level or want to move beyond CCNA level, get this book. It's a great for learning and will be a great reference or study guide for any of the routing exams. You won't regret this book.

Dieses Buch ist ein unverzichtbares Nachschlagewerk, für jeden Netzwerkspezialisten der sich der Königsdisziplin CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) stellen will. Es ist, wie bei fast allen Cisco-Büchern, gewohnt strukturiert aufgebaut und erläutert TCP/IP in allen Details. Obwohl dieses Buch speziell für Netzwerk-Ingenieure ausgelegt ist, welche die höchste Stufe aller IT-Zertifikate anstreben, so ist das Buch auch für Professionals oder Associates geeignet die sich dieses Ziel gesetzt haben. Dieser erste Teil der zweiteiligen Buchreihe beschreibt das Fundament und erst einmal alle Interrior Routing Protokolle welche für eine LAN-Umgebung relevand sind. Durch die leicht verständlichen Erklärungen und an vielen Beispielen steigt der Leser schnell durch die fundamentale Logik einer beliebigen Netzwerkumgebung. Dieses Buch ist mit Recht ein Bestseller! Es ist geeignet für das Studium, aber auch als Nachschlagewerk.

Libro ben fatto ed organizzato, indispensabile per chiunque lavori in ambito telecomunicazioni Non solo adatto all'esame CCIE ma è un ottimo libro per auto formarsi sugli argomenti base di routing

Very happy this purchase.