[101030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Book on Network Architecture and Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Mon Dec 3 13:53:02 2007
To: John Kristoff <jtk@ultradns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:43:44 CST."
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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:13 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
X-To: John Kristoff <jtk@ultradns.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:43:44 -0600
> From: John Kristoff <jtk@ultradns.net>
> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:16:47 -0200
> "MARLON BORBA" <MBORBA@trf3.gov.br> wrote:
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> > I am in search of a good book about Network Architecture and Design,
> > with emphasis in Quality of Service and convergent networks, to be used
> > as a reference. Could you please indcate your favorites?
>
> Some might say those two mutually exclusive sets, but here are some
> of my favorite general reference networking books good for most any
> netop's library (in no particular order):
>
> An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks
> S. Keshav
>
> TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume I
> W. Richard Steves
>
> Internet Core Protocols
> Eric A. Hall
>
> Interconnections: 2nd Edition
> Radia Perlman
>
> Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
> Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie
>
> If you want something specific to vendor hardware and configurations
> I'm sure others will be happy to suggest their favorites, personally
> I don't generally find those sorts of texts as useful so I can't
> really speak to any of the multitude available.
>
> John
>
I can recommend all of these except Peterson/Davie which I have not
read, but Richard (Rick) Steves writes travel books. TCP/IP Illustrated:
Vol. 1 was written by the late W. Richard Stevens. (Actually, this was
probably a typo and not confusion.)
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