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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book should be required reading for anyone involved in a TCP/IP networking related job. It is a great shelf references for just about every protocol you could imagine running over IP. I've looked through several TCP/IP books in the past, and after looking at this I came close to tossing the others straight to the trash.
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Summary: Outdated & incomplete
Review: This book was written a while back & a lot has happened since then. The book still refers to outdated RFCs, which have since been superseded by other RFCs, as the standard for certain protocols. It also feels like a chinese lunch in many ways, it does not fully inform the reader of the potential pitfalls & shortcomings in the protocols. It just skims through a lot of things, particularly the TCP protocol, which deserves alot of in-depth treatment. Frankly, one is better off reading the RFCs posted at... they are a lot more complete.
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Summary: An Intuitive Approach To Learning TCP/IP
Review: This book, although dated, explains the protocols clearly with a good number of examples and diagrams. Exercises further enhance the reader's understanding of TCP/IP. This reviewer started his computer networking career using this book as a guide. Together with a PC running Linux or FreeBSD, one can learn from the book a great deal and in depth. It is sad that W. Richard Stevens passed away; hopefully, someone would be able to update this book in the spirit as it was originally made.
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Summary: The definitive series on tcpip
Review: This series is a must have for TCP/IP programmers and
network administrators.
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Summary: The God of UNIX Networking Does it Agian
Review: W. Richard Steven (rest his soul) will always live on with books like these. As long as there is someone needing to learn TCP/IPv4 this book will always be needed.This book covers TCP/IP in depth and is great for anyone needing to learn it. This book covers IP, ARP, RARP, ICMP, RIP (and other routing protocols), UDP, IGMP, DNS, TFTP, BOOTP, SNMP, SMTP, NFS, and alot more including some programs and an overview of configurations in the appendix. This book is a must have for any person doing networking, or doing any work involving networking.
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Summary: who wants to be a zillionaire......
Review: Well worth the investment. WR Stevens has compiled the essential desk drawer reference book on TCP/IP. IP has evolved since 1994 and this book doesn't have the later coverage, but hey, whose got an implementation handle on IPv6 anyway. For the basics, in an easy to read, superbly descriptive and insightful style with great real-world traces and tips from an obvious expert in his field, this text maybe all that you will need on TCP/IP protocols.
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Summary: The TCP/IP Bible!
Review: What a wonderful book by R. Stevens! I went from not knowing anything about TCP networking to knowing a great deal in only a few weeks. There is a whole lot of material and it may take several readings to grasp all of the concepts. Some of the examples are poor and subnetting should have been explored further (It is far more detailed than what is decribed in the text). However, there is far to many good things to bring this book down! It is, by far, the best TCP/IP book I have read!
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Summary: author does the work for you
Review: What work you ask? The monotony of trudging through RFC-laden arcania. Unless you're implementing/maintaining a TCP/IP stack, the coverage is outstanding.
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Summary: A great TCP/IP book
Review: When I purchased this book, I was concerned that it was outdated. As I quickly learned, great books are never outdated and this is one of them. I was a beginner in my level of knowledge of TCP/IP before I read Stevens' book. After, I would call myself an intermediate, only because of my lack of enough tangible experience. Reading this book and using the information to analyze traffic dumps gave me a level of confidence in working with TCP/IP that I did not possess before.
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Summary: The Definitive TCP/IP Resource
Review: Written by the man that help to define TCP, this is a book that belongs on the bookshelf of every network professional. No other reasource even begins to cover the TCP/IP protocol suite in such detail
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