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Summary: TCP/IP Clearly Explained
Review: I purchased this book simply for self defense. I ended up learing more than I wanted. The information is very straigtforward and as the title states "Clearly Explained". I majored in Business w/ minor in Telecommunications. This is the best book I've read on the subject of TCP/IP in six years.
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Summary: TCP/IP Clearly Explained, 2nd Edition
Review: I recently purchased this book to assist me in a work related assignment. It is really unfortunate that I spent so much money on this book because it proved to be completely worthless. I have been a practicing software engineer for well over twenty years and have often needed to reference technical literature to aid me in designing or implementing a technology I've not previously had experience with. Most books I have used for this purpose tend to have a broad overview of the subject matter followed by several chapters that delve into the details. If you glance at the table-of-contents of this awful book, you're misled into believing that that is the book's structure. Unfortunatly, as you read Loshin's prose, it quickly becomes obvious that he hasn't a clue on how to take a somewhat complicated concept and heirarchically break it into smaller, easier to digest segments. Instead, its as if the entire 400 pages never gets to the point - everything that's said is generalized, excepted or otherwise incorrect and never gives the reader the tools and information needed to look at real TCP/IP message traffic and derive what its all about; much less develop software that can properly interact with other machines on the internet. I have since found a book (TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol I by Stevens) that was exactly what I needed. The only thing beneficial about buying Loshin's book is that it taught me to be much more discriminating when buying technical literature in the future.
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Summary: The title is wrong
Review: I was expecting to find out what TCP/IP was, how it differed from other networking standards, and an explanation of when and how to use the various components. I was disappointed. It took a lot of reading of OTHER material on TCP, and an explanation from a Stanford professor, before I could understand this book. The book could do with editing to check the topic sequence. Often a term is introduced without explanation as if you know what the author means. The explanation MAY come several pages later.
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Summary: TCP/IP Clearly Explained
Review: I was looking for a crash course on understanding TCP/IP and how it provides a foundation for the internet. I have just finished reading this book and found useful information in every chapter. This is comprehensive and technical subject matter presented in an easy to understand manner.
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Summary: This is exactly what I was looking for
Review: I was looking for a crash course on understanding TCP/IP and how it provides a foundation for the internet. I have just finished reading this book and found useful information in every chapter. This is comprehensive and technical subject matter presented in an easy to understand manner.
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Summary: A good place to start if you need to know about TCP/IP.
Review: I wrote this book for real people who need to understand what TCP/IP is all about. Plain language and clear illustrations help make some of the most complicated networking topics more accessible
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Summary: Decent introduction to TCP/IP
Review: If you've got a degree in computer science, you probably won't like this book too much: it's written mostly for intelligent and knowledgeable people who just happen to need to understand how IP networks work. All the protocols are explained, from the bottom layers (like ARP and RARP) up to the application layer (HTTP and FTP). IP, TCP, and UDP are also explained pretty well. If you could only have one book about IP networking, this would be a pretty good one to have.
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Summary: Don't Bother with This Book
Review: If your looking to learn TCP/IP I would look elsewhere. This book did nothing to explain it clearly. It was a total waste of my money.
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Summary: Easy reading summary of TCP/IP protocols in one book
Review: One of the best overviews of TCP/IP on the book shelf. Before you dig in to the technical details, read this book! Paints a broad overview of TCP/IP, network layers,SLIP/PPP,IP Version 6 even electronic mail protocols. Highly recommended.
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Summary: It is one of the good books on the subject
Review: The book delivers adequate knowledge on TCP/IP and its application on the Internetwork. I liked it to be in my personal library of good books on computers.
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