The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

Good

Must buy if you wanna progress in this field !! Go get it !!!

This is book is widely ignored. But being a veteran in this field, I can say for certain for general understanding of IP and TCP and above of OSI. NO one illustrates better than Charles. Yes I myself am an author too. So I know, and I understand what my studles like. When they read comer or others, they feel "Oh why do I need no know this"...But when they read this book "Awesome, tell me more, I want to further read RFC's, thanks" People buy Duglas, book. Sorry. Its not the good standard, his books for Network systems programming with C is kind ok a old gold standard., BUT the book that explains/guides/illustrates TCP/IP protocols in generic. Not the network sys level programming. But to be a good network systems programming person you still need this. to not have a faulty understanding of the protocol. or incomplete understanding. Very well explained, in detail. You will benefit a lot reading it. Contact the author for free samples if he does offer.

one damn thing for sure. its hell expensive. it may be good but costly. the content of the book is available on authors website free of cost. this may very well be reduced to something that can be affordable. i appreciate if its done

Master piece in itself

Auch nach 20 Jahren mit Unix und Netzwerken, mangelt es mir Kenntnissen bei der Fehlersuche und manchmal breche ich mir einen ab. Dieses Buch hatte ich lange schon auf dem Schirm, hatte es aber nie gekauft weil es normalerweise, egal wo, um die 100 Euro kostet. Nun war es kurzfristig mal nur halb so teuer bei Amazon und da habe ich gleich zugeschlagen. Gut als Nachschlagewerk für den der nur mal etwas Bestimmtes nachlesen möchte, als auch für den Planlosen der einfach vorne anfängt zu lesen. Das Buch fängt bei den Basics an und dringt dann langsam tiefer in die Materie vor, das hat der gute Kozierok toll hinbekommen. Ich habe beim lesen oft diesen "Ach so, jetzt verstehe ich das..." Effekt :) Wer gar keine Grundkenntnisse hat, sollte aber trotzdem zu etwas anderem greifen.

A condition de maîtriser la langue de Shakespeare, ce livre doit être considéré comme LA référence couvrant tous les aspects du protocole TCP/IP et de sa pile de protocoles. Enseignant dans les réseaux, j'ai fait l'acquisition de ce livre pour mettre à jour mes connaissances notamment en matière d'IPv6. Bien sûr, au vu de sa taille, il ne doit pas être lu comme un roman mais est plutôt destiné à être "butiné" pour trouver une information précise...

Amazing.

After being out of the loop with networking for sometime, I was able to sync up with most concepts in about an hour of reading this book. Very clear explanations and diagrams, I think the author is a genius because most networking books I read either ramble on or don't have proper diagrams. This book has both, to the point explanation with diagrams, that's all I need. If I remember correctly this book is available for free but after browsing through this on Google Books, I just felt compelled to pay the author for making my life so much easier :)

Would agree with many of the positive reviews here. It is hard to believe that just one person wrote this book. Equally amazing is how good it is. It is getting a bit old and some things are beginning to move on, but to understand IPv6, you need a good grasp of IPv4. Both are covered beautifully in a manner designed to teach not confuse or merely impress other academic types. There are detailed diagrams and line by line full explanations on every topic and nothing nor any detail is skipped. From binary transfer, to packet encoding, everything imaginable is covered for the OSI reference model, in terms that just about anyone can understand. Seriously impressive. Want to understand networking? Much of the information in this book is a must. As a reference book, it is outstanding. At 1500+ pages it doesn't miss much, if anything, although I must confess to only having read line by line about a third of it in total, roughly 500 pages. I'm biased as my hobby and professional work is IT. I literally have multiples of hundreds of tech books, in paper and Ebooks. For me, this book is a work of fine art.