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Illustrated SNA
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Author: Mark Pataky
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0471193720
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (02 October, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 151,014
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Pretty bad
This is probably the worst networking book I've ever read. It's also the most pretentious networking book I've ever read. Save yourself a lot of money, go to the IBM website and download a couple of their manuals for free; you may actually learn something about SNA.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Learn all about Mark Pataky's personal opinions on SNA...
A technical reference should clearly present facts and examples, leaving the reader to form his or her own opinions and conlusions. This book may as well be used by IBM as propaganda to help promote SNA. It is filled with useless opinions and promotions from the author. If you need affimation that DLSw is the best solution networking has ever seen, then read this book! Otherwise, don't waste your time.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great introduction for non-specialists.
Im a new generation network guy who had to learn how to integrate SNA with IP networks sort of on the fly. SNA is weird, so it wasn't an easy task. I read this book after having supported SNA networks for a number of months. I would have saved myself a lot of time if I would have read this book first. If your going to get into SNA hardcore, then you probably need to buy some big thick books from IBM..this book is a very general introduction. For people like me however, who have been brought up understanding networks from a layer 3 perspective, and just need to know enough to integrate existing SNA networks with IP rollouts, this book is perfect. The book discusses the history of SNA, and the major steps of its evolution. It gets into SNA addressing techniques and layer 2 protocols (SDLC, LLC2 etc..). It discusses the issues involved when deploying SNA over wide area networks. This is especially important because I have found that a number of Network Architechs don't really understand what advantages DLSw is and isn't giving you. The book does outline SNA data flows, but you will probably want to read rfc 1434 to supplement this (its a short one), more importantly, it discusses the different stages of sessions establishment, the PU and LU session (you will want to understand this particularly when dealing with DLSw). Finally it highlights some DLSw configuration parameters. This book as of date is the only book on networking Ive ever read cover to cover.
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