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IP Routing Protocols: RIP, OSPF, BGP, PNNI and Cisco Routing Protocols
by Uyless N. Black
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2000-03-10)
ISBN: 0130142484
EAN: 9780130142481
UPC: 076092006602
Dewey Decimal #: 004.62
Binding/Media: Paperback - 387 pages
SKU: BA09120109
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Text clean with NO marks. Bound strong.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Examines the routing protocols at the heart of IP-based internetworking and the Internet itself. Your complete guide to IP routing for all network professionals. DLC: TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)
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Amazon.com Review
Without some practical study, you might drive yourself crazy wondering how an e-mail message gets from Brussels to Hong Kong via a series of routers that, by themselves, have no specific knowledge of either city. Uyless Black, best known for his defining works on voice over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, has written IP Routing Protocols to explain the various route-finding algorithms. The book stays one step removed from the details of specific routing hardware and software platforms, instead explaining routing protocols as they're defined in standards documents. IP Routing Protocols, therefore, comes across as a bit academic at times, but active router technicians will find the approach clarifies their understanding of procedures used in their work. After introducing the engineering problems routing protocols are meant to solve, the book describes five (or six, if you want to separate IGRP and EIGRP) such protocols. It explains how each one came to exist and lists its relative strengths and weaknesses, plus how each protocol calculates the best-available routes, advertises these routes to neighbors, and deals with problems. IP Routing Protocols's dense style rewards readers willing to study the words carefully and draw meaning from the utilitarian conceptual drawings. The book will also pay the greatest dividends to readers who have used the covered routing protocols in practice, and can connect the high-level explanations to real-life observed phenomena. --David Wall Topics covered: The most popular routing protocols used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks and internetworks, including Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI). The book also briefly discusses two proprietary Cisco protocols, Inter-Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) and Enhanced IGRP (EIGRP).
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Customer Reviews
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Dry...
Rating  (3)
Date: 2001-07-22
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As expected, right? However it does cover the basic routing protocols that you *need* to know about. (take that sarcastically)A good reference...but not the kind of book you want to take with you on the plane.
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How the Mighty Have Fallen
Rating  (1)
Date: 2001-02-17
16 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
Uyless Black is one of the most prolific network authors alive today. One wonders how he can write so many books. Indeed, if you have his older books you'll wonder if he even wrote this one. The errors and simplicity far outweigh the good, original content. I bought the book based on his reputation and other titles of his in my extensive library. I returned it the following day. His errors begin with referring to the late W. Richard Stevens's book "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1" as "Steven's book." In the same sentence he recommends Professor Douglas Comer's book "Internetworking with TCP/IP" as "Come's book." If he and his editors cannot even get the singular possessive correct or spell properly, how can you trust the facts in the book? His errors multiply when he recommends a popular title from Cisco Press on OSPF that has "an average of an error a page, on a light page" according to one reviewer (private communication to me at Networkers 2000 in Orlando). Some might think he offers detailed coverage of the protocols. I disagree. The coverage he tenders is of a basic to early-intermediate level at best. If you can follow a URL you can gain much more than Black offers here. Just read the RFCs and you will cover most of the protocols Black's book. There are two clear exceptions: Cisco's IGRP/EIGRP and ISO'S IS-IS. But wait! There is an RFC that discusses IS-IS in the IP world. Cisco has ample documents on their website that discuss their proprietary protocols. Do not think I am opposed to published works. My networking library fills four six-shelf bookcases that are three feet wide each. My collection of de facto and de jure standards nearly fills another such bookcase. Published works fill a role that the standards documents are not intended to. But, please, buy the right book! One gets the impression that the book was not designed to meet the needs of customer, but to fulfill a contract with a publisher. It is unfortunate, too, because the market clearly needs a detailed discussion of these routing protocols in a single volume. The only works that do so now are focused on configuring equipment from Cisco Systems, Inc. Save your money. Buy Radia Perlman's book "Interconnections, 2ed", John Stewart's book "BGPv4", and Ivan Pepelnjak's "EIGRP Network Design Solutions." Or simply buy Jeff Doyle's "Routing TCP/IP." Sure, the last couple are Cisco-centric, but they cover the protocol operations in detail. Doyle's, in particular, covers several protocols and is probably the best overall reference on all rouTING protocols only because he also covers EIGRP. My second choice would be Radia Perlman's, even though she does not cover the popular but proprietary EIGRP. The Mother of Spanning Tree Protocol has done a remarkable job not only on rouTING protocols, but also on the layer two operations of bridges and switches. Save your time. Don't read this book. Unless, that is, you are a paid reviewer getting it ready for a new debut.
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For the routing beginner this is agreat place to start.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-09-16
7 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Router and routing protocols are fast becoming the certification path many people are taking. Learning TCP/IP and subnetting is most confusing if you don't understand the basis and the basics. IP Routing Protocols is a first rate work that will make sense of the whole thing.The book is written to the more network savvy users and it's important that you have this understanding before beginning. Once you get into the book you'll find a world of information all packed into 280 plus pages. While the book does start off with the basic of internetworking, again the better understanding you have the easier it will be to grasp the more complex concepts. You'll get router discovery principles, bridges and internetworking basics and then you will start with the routing protocols. RIP. OSPF, BGP, IGRP and EIRGP as well as PNNI are covered in the next seven chapters. The author includes a number pictures, figures and diagrams to help you see visually what he it talking about. There are appendices that cover the OSI layered protocols, address resolution, subnetting subnet masking, translation and configuration. Also there is a section on Next Hop Resolution Protocol and several pages that cover abbreviations used in the book. The text seems to be complete and well documented and the author has put together a excellent reference guide. While it may be a little on the pricey side the overall value is well worth the price.
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Good Book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-05-27
11 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book has help me in understanding routing in general. I wished the author went more indepth on BGP and OSPF.
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