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Summary: Awesome
Review: Excellent book on Layer 2 switching.Detailed, more practical and mixed with humor. Thanks to Rich for bringing forward such a good book.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have found Rich Seifert's lucid and no B.S. way of explaining things to be highly refreshing. I have had the pleasure of taking some networking classes with Rich as the instructor and I've always come away with a deeper and broader understanding of communication networks. I highly recommend The Switch Book to any serious network administrator.
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Summary: Clear, Concise and Complete
Review: I have found Rich Seifert's lucid and no B.S. way of explaining things to be highly refreshing. I have had the pleasure of taking some networking classes with Rich as the instructor and I've always come away with a deeper and broader understanding of communication networks. I highly recommend The Switch Book to any serious network administrator.
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Summary: The Definitive Text on LAN Switching
Review: I read the first 140 pages before my rottweiller ate the book a couple of days ago. On the strength of those 140 pages, I ordered a replacement copy. Seifert has been involved in the development of LAN standards for many years, so he has intimate technical knowledge of how switches work. His writing is lucid and entertaining--many amusing anecdotes, asides & aphorisms are sprinkled throughout. The introductory chapters provide sufficient background for LAN novices to understand the later material. This is the definitive text on LAN switching technology, and it is an easy read.
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Summary: The Definitive Text on LAN Switching
Review: I read the first 140 pages before my rottweiller ate the book a couple of days ago. On the strength of those 140 pages, I ordered a replacement copy. Seifert has been involved in the development of LAN standards for many years, so he has intimate technical knowledge of how switches work. His writing is lucid and entertaining--many amusing anecdotes, asides & aphorisms are sprinkled throughout. The introductory chapters provide sufficient background for LAN novices to understand the later material. This is the definitive text on LAN switching technology, and it is an easy read.
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Summary: One of the top 4 books for low level OSI lurkers
Review: I work in the bottom 3 OSI layers and pretty much refer back to the same 3 books all the time:
1. Ethernet by Charlie Spurgeon
2. TCP/IP Vol 1 by W.Richard Stevens
3. Switched, Fast and Gig Ethernet by Breyer & Riley
These 3 books are tops.
The Switch Book belongs right up there with these three.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Outstanding coverage of switches, from beginner level to advanced. Well written, clear, and even funny in places.
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Summary: Excellent book for learning all about switching
Review: Rich Seifert has played a significant role in the development of Ethernet and other high-speed LAN standards and is the perfect person to write a book on this subject. Also an excellent teacher, Rich knows how to take the reader from basic introductory information through comprehensive technical details, with an often humorous writing style that works for advanced-level engineers and ordinary people like me who are mathematically-challenged! If you need to design, install, or manage networks with switching and need to fully understand Layer 2 and 3 switching, Virtual LANs, Link Aggregation, QoS, and more, this book is a must-have. Simply understanding the terminology used when talking about switching will help the reader select the correct products for his or her needs. Rich does a great job of cutting through the marketing hype. Of course, I am biased in that Rich and the publisher asked me to be one of the early reviewers of this book and I thought it was great then and am thrilled that it is finally available for the rest of the world.
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Summary: One of ze best !!
Review: The main reason I'm writing this review is that I feel that this book is not getting the readership it "rich"ly deserves.Rich covers the basics of Lans with elan (all puns copyrighted).You will understand the concepts and implementation of bridging thus allowing you to view routing in a better perspective.Rich's laws of networking are absolutely gems: a chapter summarized into a line.His excellent and generous use of flowcharts and diagrams deserve some stars by themselves.Also the description of the protocols, the tradeoffs made during their design leaves you with an insight as to how to (and in some cases how not to) design a working protocol. The last chapter is a gem - it covers the life of a packet as it enters the bridge till it exits on one of the ports.If you're a router guy, read this and you'll never sneer at a bridge again. The explanations are lucid,simple to the point and are peppered with the odd bad engineering joke (better than Radia Perlman's sarcasm :)]I bought this book based on other readers recommendations and am glad for the same. This book is a networking bible along with those by Stevens,Comer,Perlman and of course thomas maufer. While you can more or less read any chapter in isolation, you are recommended to go in order to maximize your output from this book. PS: A layer 1 switch is a shared hub or a repeater * A layer 2 switch is a bridge * A layer 3 switch is a router * The rest of this review was lost due to collisions on the lan. Back off Rich,Back off !! :)
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Summary: JOY to read.
Review: There are many books on LANs and switching. Most of them are too basic and not well written. "The Switch Book" is a rarity in this crowded field. It covers a lot of different aspects of switching in great detail, yet the book is so well written that it can be read in a week! I read it four times from cover to cover now and every time I learned something new. At our company we require every new application engineer to buy this book. I will love to see Mr. Seiffert write a follow up to this book covering more advanced topics. It is reading good books like this that makes a person feel sane, that one wasn't imagining that the other books were badly written rush jobs. This book joins the list of other excellent books like Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated."
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