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Buy This Book!
Why "Internetworking with TCP/IP" should be on every network professional's bookshelf.

by Greg Neilson

9/26/2001 --
Book Review

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Title  Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1, 4th edition
Authors Douglas E. Comer
Publisher Prentice Hall
Publication Date February 2000
ISBN 0-13-018380-6
Price $64.00 (U.S.)
Pros Very clear and precise reference of TCP/IP protocols.
Cons It's not a cheap book (but it is worth the money).
Verdict Very highly recommended.
Let me start with a confession. I specifically asked to review "Internetworking with TCP/IP" because I really wanted the book! I already had the previous edition and it was time to upgrade to the latest version. If you haven’t come across this book before, you should definitely consider getting your own copy. Outside of the Windows resource kits, this is the book I find myself referring to most often.

The subtitle of the book is "Principles, Protocols, and Architectures," and that pretty well describes what you will find here. TCP/IP has become the lingua franca of networking, so if you have any involvement with networking you will need to be conversant with TCP/IP.

It is intended as both a technical reference and as an advanced level college textbook, so the book is serious in tone yet very clear and precise. The author has been involved with Internet-related research since the late '70s and is renowned as an expert on TCP/IP and the Internet.

The new edition updates a number of chapters with the latest developments in areas such as IPv6 and IPSec. It also includes four new chapters covering mobile IP, VPNs and NAT, HTML and HTTP, and voice and video over IP. The last edition was published in 1995, so there has been a great deal of RFC activity since then that needed to be added. Many of these newer technologies are also new features of Windows 2000. That makes this book a useful tutorial on the concepts involved before you delve deeper into Microsoft’s implementation when studying for your exams.

The book starts with a brief discussion of the underlying network technologies (Ethernet, FDDI and ATM), and then works its way up the TCP/IP protocol stack. Each main protocol, including IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, Rlogin/Telnet and others, is covered in its own chapter. There is also plenty of discussion of routing concepts, with 4 chapters covering the design of routing protocols such as BGP, RIP, OSPF and Hello. To give an idea of the depth of coverage in the book, the DNS chapter includes a discussion of the hierarchical namespace, Internet domain naming, caching and how names are resolved to IP addresses. It then discusses the message formats from a DNS server, abbreviations of domain names, inverse mapping and the different types of resource records in DNS.

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In short, I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It deserves a place on your professional reference bookshelf.

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Greg Neilson, MCSE+Internet, MCNE, PCLP, is a Contributing Editor for Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and a manager at a large IT services firm in Australia. He's the author of Lotus Domino Administration in a Nutshell (O'Reilly and Associates, ISBN 1-56592-717-6). You can reach him at Attn: Greg.
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