IP Routing Fundamentals

Came in great shape and exactly what I wanted. Thank you.

This is a great book. Mr. Sportack provides his readers with a fluent overview of network engineering as it relates to WAN technology. He breaks his book down into four well organized and well developed sections.The first section discusses the essance of LAN funtionality. He talks about the OSI model, data, IP addressing, scalibility, growth constraints and resolutions for those constraints.Then he dedicates several chapters to WANs. He talks about how they communicate and he gives a fantastic overview of WAN protocols that use Circuit, Packet, and Cell switching technologies as well as an indepth sectin on media.The third section covers the routing protocols. Why? So you can design your routed network and choose the best protocols based on your network needs and the protocols performance benifits and constraints.The fourth section covers engineering a Network. He discusses topoligies, protocols, and blended systems.The graphics and style of this book are indicitave of a great communicator. Before I read this book I could confuse anybody I talked to about networking, now I can communicate these complex issues on a more down to earth level. Mr. Sportack should be highly commended for this book.

This book provides good insight as to the operation of protocols. This is the only book that mentioned why RIP doesn't load balance(It maintains a single route to any given destination in its routing table). Compares RIP to IGRP explaining why IGRP combined metrics surpasses RIPv2 in scalability. Excellent coverage of EIGRP vs OSPF explaining how the Hybrid EIGRP borrows from both distance vector and link state protocols providing ease of use and robustness. The mechanics of routing is discussed in detail describing every detail of how packets traverse a network. I highly recommend this book for any Internetworking Engineer's library. I also recommend "Routing TCP/IP" author: Jeff Doyle

This book was a pleasure to read and provided much needed insight into interior gateway routing protocols, such as RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF. Although this book did not cover configuration information as relevant to Cisco routers, nor did it provide discussion into any of the exterior gateway routing protocols, this book is a great reference when questions arise about the mechanics of IP interior gateway routing protocols.

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.

This book maybe 15 years old (published 1999) but it was written for and published by Cisco, a highly reputable industry leader in the world of Internet technology in all its aspects. I am not aware of any better reference material on the subject and I always look forward to obtaining any books published by Cisco. When these books were new they will have cost a small fortune by the standards of the day but today they can be purchased for very little money. But even though this book is 15 years old, the underlying principles of the Internet have not changed, although it can be claimed that the unpinning technology and equipment design and manufacture has changed almost out of all recognition compared with that existing at the turn of the last century.

A*

As I paid for a used one, I can say it's used but it looks new.I received it also even faster than expected.