Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 Days

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As you might imagine, Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 14 Days provides a rapid introduction to the TCP/IP protocols and to a few commonly used applications that are built on top of them. The discussion is very lucid and emphasizes the fundamental concepts behind a given protocol; it does a good job of not letting the mass of details obscure the reasoning. Each section ends with a quiz and series of questions (and answers), so you can test your knowledge of each topic. The book also includes useful sections on sample installations and a nice discussion of sockets. As an added bonus, the book's appendix contains an index that maps an application and/or a protocol to the appropriate RFC (Request for Comments) document./p>

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I bought the book several years ago when I knew very few about TCP/IP and networking.

Now, when I already know a few things, I can honestly say the book is simply bad. I went through the chapters describing IP addressing and hardly understood the explainations. And that, considering my background in this area, is a bad sign. The descriptions built in a very confusing way. The way one programmer tells to another what he knows instead of teaching the subject. It seems that being targeted to the beginner audience, the book clearly misses the point. For intermediate and higher readers, there is nothing really new or useful in it. I'm sure there are better ones.

Ok, but better books available.

This book is quite dated now. It does cover the basics of TCP/IP and goes in quite a lot of detail.

I found that the books covered several areas that I wasn't very interested in eg Gateway Protocols, Network File System etc.

This books does not cover Windows or Linux so may not be very useful in todays computing environment. However if you can pick up a cheap copy then it may be worth adding to your library for later reference.