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IP Routing Fundamentals
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Author: Mark Sportack
List Price: $40.00
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ISBN: 157870071X
Publisher: Cisco Press (19 February, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 63,162
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Good information, but not clearly written
The book is technically well written. BUT...it's about as dry as burnt toast. And the author insists on using non-standard phrases like "contention domain" to describe "collision domains". How about writing a book in plain English? This book has useful information, but the author seems to put too much energy into writing in a style that says "Hey, look at me! I'm so smart that I can make even simple concepts sound confusing!". Keep it on your shelf as a reference. You might need to take it out and blow the dust off of it every few months.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Good sleeping material
Sheesh, half a chapter and it is lights out! Just kidding. The book is very good, but like one other reviewer said, it could be half as thick and still have the same info in it. Alot of reviewing and repeating of stuff already talked about (I guess redundancy is not all that bad). But it is not light reading- very dry writing that is at times tedious to read. But the subject is well covered and gives a good background into the principles of routing and IP.
Rating: 3 out of 5
fairly good introduction
I don't understand why this book deserves so many 5 stars (which was the reason I picked up the book). While it provides sufficient introductary material on the subject, the book should really be half thick at most -- the layout wastes lots of paper, and also there is simply too much repeating and redundency, in some cases repeating the same diagrams, paragraphs and sentences. Added to that is the existence of errors, some of them in the examples.
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