[6033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco for dummies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Nov 8 17:48:20 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:33:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: Michael Vallee <mike@vaultline.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, mike@ns.vaultline.net
In-Reply-To: <199611082051.MAA02705@ns.vaultline.net>
Actually the Nutshell books are great. "Cisco IOS in a Nutshell" I can go
for that. Aren't they the ones that also do *the* Sendmail book?
I have never thought much of the Cisco classes, but that is a personal
preference I suppose, most of the people I know who still use IPX are
very happy with it.
Then again, I don't hear many people talking about the future of IPX anymore.
-Deepak.
On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Michael Vallee wrote:
>
> This is actually a very good idea. Someone should talk to Tim O'Rielly at
> ORA.COM about this. They are the "Nutshell Book" folks, and do a great job
> on other books in this area.
>
> We need to recommend an author. Any volunteers?
>
> Mike Vallee Vaultline Inc. mike@vaultline.net
> 408 364 9056
>
> >
> > (Assuming this hasn't already been done and I am the one that is uninformed)
> >
> > Has anyone though of how much money some publisher could make with a
> > Cisco for Dummies<tm> book? Say it runs $49.95 and is 2000 pages. It has
> > every obscure use of every command in say the IP IOS or Netflow Switching
> > or everything Cisco makes [depending on size here] It strikes me that
> > the UniversCD and the bound/hard copy manuals [including the ones from
> > the classes] are not all that useful unless you remember the approximate
> > syntax of the command or that it has been expanded in the next version of
> > IOS.
> >
> > Lots of companies make books solely elaborating on the references
> > provided by the manufacturer [ala Osborne on Borland and such].
> >
> > It boggles my mind to figure how many they would probably sell [one for
> > every customer router?]
> >
> > Then again, I guess Cisco would sell it at they standard rates. $1095 for
> > the 3 volume set on CD.
> >
> > WARNING: There is some sarcasm in this message.
> >
> > -Deepak.
> >
>
