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Summary: BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet
Review: i wish to write this book
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Summary: A great book for studying BGP routing for the first time
Review: If you are just starting to learn BGP, this book and Halabi's "Internet Routing Architectures" are must-reads. The major difference between this book and Halabi's is this book describes what the standard BGP is, while Halabi's is more Cisco centric. I found it easier to start with this book first. It is very concise and get to the point. While Halabi's focuses on Cisco implementation of BGP routing protocol, it gives a lot of examples and plenty of explanation. Cisco TAC engineers use Halabi's as the BGP bible.
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Summary: The only game in town, unfortunately
Review: In his Preface, the author pats himself on the back for tackling four challenges at once: writing the book, moving cross-country, starting a new job and a new relationship. He says the book "created more than its fair share of stress" in his life for several months. Unfortunately, the stress shows with increasing obviousness as one nears the end of the book. Take his explanation of what a Singly Homed Subscriber means on page 68. I read the two paragraphs at least three times and tried several approaches: looking for the definition, deducing the definition and inducing the definition, with pencil in hand no less. No cigars. Maybe the author thinks he is beyond a simple declarative definition, but has to show his cleverness by resorting to the annoying ploy of answering a question with a question, a tactic he resorts to again and again whenever the going gets a bit rough. But in case you think single homing is bad, wait till you try wading through multiple homing. IMUX, MEDs, LOCAL-PREFS are all meshed together in one unholy mess. There is no attempt to organize the material here at all. This may be the right approach if there is some insight the author is trying to impart, but somehow I suspect that it is nothing but a mask for his own inability to digest the material. Most of us buy these books to take advantage of the authors' indepth knowledge and experience to decipher and interpret the more detailed RFCs. If that is what you are looking for, stop and reread the RFCs. Stewart is no help.
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Summary: A must read for network engineers
Review: Like another reviewer mentioned not to be fooled by its size. This is the best description of BGP4 I've come across so far. Working for a networking company that makes products for the internet core I was asked to educate myself in BGP. This book covers all the basic BGP path attributes to the advanced topics such as router reflectors, confederations and communities. After reading this book I fully understood what routing policy means and how BGP uses that to make the internet work. BGP is indeed the work horse behind the internet. I recommend to read this book before indulging yourself in the RFC1771 for more details. I even the like the simplistic round diagrams throughout the book, a fresh look... something non-cisco <thank god> And who better to write the book but John himself, one of the brains behind Juniper networks!
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Summary: CCIE Candidates.... Be sure to lay your hands on this one!
Review: OK. So you have Hallabi's book. And you have Routing in the Internet book too. So what more?. Get this book. A pleasant surprise is the "size" of this book (small == beautiful) (Is Cisco Press reading this? ). These three books plus the RFCs should clear ANY ambiguities about BGP4.
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Summary: Worth the Read
Review: Small, precise and indepth. The above reviews convinced me to get this book and a good decision it was. Want to know BGP and show off to your friends and potential employer? Read this book! =) Tron- Defender of the Users.
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Summary: A good BGP overview
Review: The book is composed of four chapter.
Chapter 1: good introduction about interdomain routing (in plain english !)
Chapter 2: the clerical part about bits and bytes of the protocol. This part, although not core, could have been written better.
Chapter 3: about BGP and load balancing. The best part but too sintetycal
Chapter 4: the evolution of the protocolol
every IP net admin intersted in peering and IP Policy must have it
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book accomplishes a great deal in 137 pages. You will learn what BGP is all about and the theory of how to deploy it. You will not learn command line interface syntax for any specific brand of router. However, understanding what the router is supposed to do first, usually helps in configuring it. :-) Enjoy!
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book accomplishes a great deal in 137 pages. You will learn what BGP is all about and the theory of how to deploy it. You will not learn command line interface syntax for any specific brand of router. However, understanding what the router is supposed to do first, usually helps in configuring it. :-) Enjoy!
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Summary: All in all, a winner.
Review: This book is a winner. That said I agree with the other reviewers including the first gentleman who seems to be quite turned off by the book. Personally I like the treatment of topics like BGP messages, AS-path/attrib, I-BGP and multihoming. I didnt quite get the BGP community concept thoroughly from the book. I like the 'practical' approach of the book and the way John has used the ISP examples to explain the concept. Come to think of it, its more of a BGP concept book. For any protocol's message type def, ofcourse, nothing compares to RFC. After reading the book, rfc1771 was a breeze and you can used this book as a handy reference to accompany the rfc.
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