Book details of 'Tcp/Ip Complete (Complete Series)'

Title	Tcp/Ip Complete (Complete Series)
Author(s)	Ed Taylor
ISBN	0070634009
Language	English
Published	March 1998
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Professional

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Network architect and consultant Ed Taylor has condensed all of the information he's found useful over the years into this book. While his guide is intended for serious techies, it does tackle introductory as well as advanced topics in a just-the-facts manner. Taylor goes through the entirety of TCP/IP systematically, explaining all the systems, components, and applications in clear, if sometimes terse, prose. The text is richly enhanced by a wide variety of charts, diagrams, and illustrations, making the information easy for beginning and intermediate users to follow. Taylor pushes for a holistic approach to network management, urging his readers to keep an eye on the long-term consequences of their choices rather than just the short-term results. The companion CD-ROM provides a searchable database of TCP/IP-related Request for Comments (RFC) documents, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) supplements, and information on the year 2000 problem.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one gives a not always reliable background of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) consisting mostly of trivia with a bit of structure showing how the various parts interoperate. Address resolution and routing are the major concerns in chapter two, although it also looks at IP headers. TCP, UDP (User Datagram Protocol), and IP addressing get mentioned in chapter three. Chapter four gives brief explanations of some common Internet applications. There is a quick review of LAN design (and sinusoidal voltage graphs) in chapter five. Network component diagrams, more voltage diagrams, rack diagrams, UPS logs, net clouds, and an ad for a UPS manufacturer make up chapter six. Chapter seven finally gets into some detail on the current IPv4. This is extended into IPv6 in chapter eight, but that must itself be extended into chapter nine. Chapter ten gives extensive details on TCP while chapter eleven gives almost no information at all on UDP. X, the windowing system commonly used in a networked UNIX environment, gets a short description in chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen talks randomly about network management. Some mixed information about telnet is in chapter fourteen. There is a bit of an explanation of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) in chapter fifteen, and other details in sixteen. Chapter seventeen reviews a number of proprietary network management products, concentrating primarily on network cloud diagrams. Chapter eighteen gets back to some TCP/IP basics with DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). This is followed up with DNS (Domain Name System) in chapter nineteen. The book is finished with RPC (Remote Procedure Call) in chapter twenty. The content of this text is random, poorly explained, and badly organized. There are many better books on the system, such as "Designing TCP/IP Internetworks" , the classic "Internetworking with TCP/IP" , "TCP/IP Illustrated" , "IPng and the TCP/IP Protocols" (see reviews), and even "TCP/IP with Windows NT Illustrated" (see reviews). I really can't see any audience that would particularly benefit from this book over the others. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1998
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This book provides TCP/IP information as well as TCP/IP reference information. Technical people from a variety of backgrounds will gain insight from the breadth of information provided. The scope includes the core TCP/IP protocol components and application explanation as well as details on IP addressing for version 4 and 6.