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TCP/IP Over ATM : A No-Nonsense Internetworking Guide
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Author: Berry Kercheval
List Price: $67.99
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ISBN: 0137685998
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (02 December, 1997)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 122,353
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
It is
The material in the book touches on Sonet, IP, ATM, and other topics.But it is not enough for a beginner and absolutely boring for any advanced reader. I would suggest instead to read the Bible of IP "Internetworking TCP/IP vol. 1 (Comer)" and "ATM Resource Library, Volumes 1, 2 And 3 (Black, Prentice Hall)". If those that want Sonet stuff try "Sonet and T1 : Architectures for Digital Transport Networks (Black/Waters, Prentice Hall)"
Rating: 1 out of 5
Not worth the money
If you expect to find in depth info about tcp or atm, you'll definately disapointed. This book is only good for people who don't know anything about tcp/ip or atm. (In that case, one would not buy this book). The book starts with overview of tcp/ip and atm(using 2 chapters). Then, it use one short chapter to talk about how ip is over atm. Then it talks about other things like snmp, ip multicast, etc... which I don't really interest in. Don't let the title of the book fool you. You can get much more info regarding ip over atm with any other ATM books.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good in parts, bad in others
On the one hand, reading this book gives a pretty good overview of TCP/IP over ATM. However, it's pretty short (just barely 200 pages altogether, with almost 40 pages of backmatter)--the price is pretty high considering the length. And, I've got serious problems with the content.What's troublesome are the copy editing lapses. There seem to be a lot of instances where an acronym is used without first defining it--this is why it's so hard to read the source RFCs on ATM, and why a book like this could be so helpful if it were clearer. And not all acronyms are included in the glossary, making it worse. And the fact that there are a fair number of typos that didn't get caught makes me wonder how accurate the rest of the book is. Also, for example, Kercheval refers to NHRP as the "Next Hop Routing Protocol" yet the source (and the bibliography) correctly refer to the Next Hop Resolution Protocol. Although Kercheval states in the introduction that everything will be explained clearly so that even people without an ATM background will get it, that doesn't always seem to be the case. Even so, if you really need to try to figure out the main issues related to running IP over ATM, this is probably as good a book as any now available. This would actually be a great book if it were more closely edited for accuracy, though.
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