[124549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Books for the NOC guys...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Fleming)
Fri Apr 2 10:01:58 2010
From: Brad Fleming <bdfleming@kanren.net>
To: Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <86wrwqukcm.fsf@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:01:09 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in
> our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet
> infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old
> standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a
> decade or so.
>
> On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't
> been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are
> all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI
> negotiation.
>
> So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -r
>
It kind of depends on what you want from your NOC folk and (at least a
little bit) which "level" NOC people need the resource.
In addition to the ones already listed, we encourage Tier 1 and Tier 2
people to read and understand these two books:
T1: A Survival Guide
http://www.amazon.com/T1-Survival-Guide-Matthew-Gast/dp/0596001274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270216284&sr=8-1
Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide
http://www.amazon.com/Network-Maintenance-Troubleshooting-Guide-Solutions/dp/0321647416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270216655&sr=1-1
We find these are both pretty solid resources, especially for our Tier
1 folks. Since much of what they eventually deal with are Layer 1
problems, having resources that focus on Layer 1 helps get their mind
moving that direction. If we have a routing problem, that generally
needs to get bumped up anyway since it means somethings misconfigured
or a routing protocol is acting up.
--
Brad Fleming
