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 | | The Complete Network Upgrade & Maintenance Guide by Mark Minasi, Jim Blaney, Chris Brenton ISBN-10: 9780782122596 ISBN-10: 0-7821-2259-0 ISBN-13: 9780782122596 ISBN-13: 978-0-7821-2259-6 Hardcover 1999-01-15 Sybex Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description The Ultimate Networking Reference--A MUST BUY for every System Administrator! The Complete Network Upgrade & Maintenance Guide is a practical and comprehensive guide to implementing, upgrading, and maintaining networks, from small office LANs to enterprise-scale WANs and beyond. Written by Mark Minasi and two other leading networking authorities, this is the most complete, authoritative, and important resource ever created for system administrators. If you have to upgrade, repair, maintain, and troubleshoot real-world networks, you'll find 1600 pages of vital information. The CD includes the entire text of the book in handy electronic files and scores of valuable network utilities and tools. | ||
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As networking introduction Excellent coverage of all aspect of networking but lots of error especially in the tcp/ip subnetting section. This book made a great introduction to the world of networking. | ||
Global coverage The book covers about every networking related topic with enough theoretical and practicle depth to really understand what's going on. Some topics described are a little outdated but before a person can understand what's going on with today standards it should understand previous technologies. It's the only book i know that covers about every protocol used for the various OSI layers (from application standard to the cabling part) without getting too technical on the bit's and bytes level. I don't really understand why they choose the title "The Complete Network Upgrade & Maintenance Guide" since the book is more a global networking tutorial. A good, huge book i recommend to everybody that wants to learn about all concepts used with LAN/WAN (inter)networking. | ||
Global coverage The book covers about every networking related topic with enough theoretical and practicle depth to really understand what's going on. Some topics described are a little outdated but before a person can understand what's going on with today standards it should understand previous technologies. It's the only book i know that covers about every protocol used for the various OSI layers (from application standard to the cabling part) without getting too technical on the bit's and bytes level. I don't really understand why they choose the title "The Complete Network Upgrade & Maintenance Guide" since the book is more a global networking tutorial. A good, huge book i recommend to everybody that wants to learn about all concepts used with LAN/WAN (inter)networking. | ||
Not worth the price tag Take Chris Brenton's "Multiprotocol Network Design and Troubleshooting" book, add some information on Token Ring, AppleShare, Banyan, LANtastic as well as a number of other dead technologies, slap Mark Minasi's name on the cover and increase the price by $15 and what do you get? "The Complete Network Upgrade & Maintenance Guide". I kid you not, I compared these two books page by page and the text on all of the current technologies is identical word for word. Sybex burned me on this book but never again. It makes me wonder if all the current Minasi books are thrown together the same way. | ||