Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers: Help for IP Network Administrators

by Scott Ballew

Routers are the glue that connects the pieces of your network. Even in the simplest networks, this isn't a simple task. Routers have evolved into highly specialized computing platforms, with extremely flexible but complex capabilities. Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers is a practical guide to setting up and maintaining a production network. It discusses issues like how to select routing protocols and how to configure protocols to handle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565923200
• ISBN13: 9781565923201
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book but out of date.

This book is for those who wish to design networks at the router level. If you aren't designing networks, you may find this book not quite as useful. The Cisco Internetwork Operating System is out of date but most of the commands in the book still work but newers IOS will have a terminal wizard now that will setup up most things in the book much easier.By the way, I am a network administrator.

Good fundamental reference reading

While it doesn't provide a cut and paste how-to, I find this book worth going back to to refresh fundamentals. I work with Bay gear, and this is still a great book. I read very few books from cover-to-cover, but I've already read this one twice. As someone who's WAN is still relatively small, this book targets many of the issues I'm facing as our network grows.

Good (pocket sized) Introduction to Cisco Routers

Very much an introductory book to both Cisco Routers and networking. If you want a toe in the water this is the book for you; also ideal for those in IT Management who are not in the technological front line. Priced OK, too.

A good introductory book but not technical enough

This book is not technical enough to manage a TCP/IP network consisting of Cisco routers, as you might have expected from the book's title. Thus I was quite disappointed when I read the book. The interface configuration, for example, was presented in the Appendix. For someone not familiar with TCP/IP and routers, this book may be a helpful start. But if you are looking for a book on managing the routed network, ckeck out the book by Chris Lewis.

An Excellent Refresher Book

This is a great book for people just starting out with TCP/IP and CISCO routers. It points out the major concepts when dealing with CISCO routers without reading the thousand page manual which accompanies the CISCO router. However, for those who regularly work CISCOs and TCP/IP this book can provide a quick brush on some basic concepts but it does not contain anywhere near the detail required to properly configure, troubleshoot and maintain a WAN comprise of CISCOs especially with all the various fallacies in the various CISCO IOS revisions.This is one of the most comprehensive book I have seen written on CISCO routers and Internetworking.