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McGraw-Hill Internetworking Handbook (Taylor Networking Series)
by Ed Taylor
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (1997-06)
ISBN: 0070633347
EAN: 9780070633346
Dewy Decimal #: 004.6
Hardcover: 876 pages
Edition: 2 Sub
SKU: 00-ETLU-0FHD
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Pages are unmarked. Binding is tight.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Internetworking Bible - now revised and updated Put your career on the fast track by mastering today's important protocols; SNA, TCP/IP, Ethernet, FDDI, Frame Relay, APPN, OSI, DECnet, NetWare, Atm, X.25 and more. All you need is The McGraw-Hill Internetworking Handbook, Second Edition, by D. Edgar Taylor. Totally revised and updated, with the latest on multimedia, voice and Intranet networks... Ethernet, Frame-Relay and APPN architecture... Ipv6... and more, it's your one-stop source for fast, accurate information on all the upper- and lower-layer protocol environments (evolution, architecture, components, operation and applications) as well as such major network devices as repeaters, bridges, routers, servers, and gateways. You even get a completely updated glossary and acronym list-making this the most complete, authoritative guide to internetworking you'll ever lay your hands on!
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Customer Reviews
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Good tech, bad writing
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-08-20
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The guy seems to know his stuff, but he has serious dfificulty in putting it all together. His writing is stream-of-consciousness, contains thoughts that don't need to be there and which may confuse students with little knowledge of the subject. But, like I said, there are good facts in the book if you know enough about the subject to glean them out.
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Except for the factual errors this is a read for freshman!
Rating  (1)
Date: 1999-05-21
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ed Taylor says this book is for network architects, systems engineers, consultants and such. Rather it might make a good introductory text for college students thinking about computer science for a field of study except that the explanations are too often inadequate and sometimes flat wrong! He literally says in one short paragraph that a transparent bridge is sometimes called a spanning tree bridge and that a spanning tree bridge is essentially a learning bridge. Explaining the concept of a spanning tree bridge is difficult but I suspect Ed Taylor doesn't understand them and worse doesn't know he doesn't know. I wish a good education in networking could be packed into one volume but it didn't happen here. The hype far exceeds the content. Do yourself a favor and buy a half a dozen good books instead of wasting your time and money on this empty promise.
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A disappointment
Rating  (2)
Date: 1999-02-25
This book looks like it covers a lot, but it really uses a lot of words to cover very little and I found most explanations more confusing than in other books I had read. After reading some sections I felt like I knew less than when I started. There are an awful lot of small errors also, such as referring to a backbone as "background" in one figure. I definitely don't feel it's worth the price.
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Too little about too much.
Rating (2)
Date: 1997-04-05
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Looking at the book at a glance it may appear to be the right choice for the networking professional who is looking for a comprehensive book about today's network technology.
Furthermore, McGraw-Hill books are usually well worth their price, however this one is definitely an exception.
The author is overly ambitious in trying to cover everything. The result is a miserable failure in that it contains too little (f)actual information to be of much value. Buy it if you want a book that includes a lot of terms, and you don't care much about details and explanations.
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