Ethernet Networks: Design, Implementation, Operation, Management

By Gilbert Held

Book Overview

In this edition, Held addresses both the technical and financial concerns of LAN planners and administrators who want to install a faster Ethernet network or upgrade an existing system. With the launch of the Gigabit Ethernet standard, the book provides guidance on how to plan, design, and manage either a Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet project. Topics including Internet connectivity, security, Gigabit Ethernet operations, vLANs and performance tuning for maximum bandwidth are also explored.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471253103
• ISBN13: 9780471253105
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.6" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Very complete except for Gigabit Ethernet

This book is really complete. It has almost anything you need to know about Ethernet Networks. It is also written in a clear and understandable form. Buy it.

Surprising strengths, surprising weaknesses

I bought this book because I needed to learn some real details of constructing Ethernet networks, such as distance and hop limitations in mixed 10 and 100 BaseT installations. In this I was disappointed, as I found this portion of the book confusing, unclear and even self-contradictory in places. I was able to figure out what I needed to know, but that took a lot of rereading and extrapolation. The text has the feel of a book written by committee, with the same information repeated in various places with different degrees of clarity and from different points of view. The index is so limited as to be useless.On the other hand, the book contains an extensive introduction to IP and TCP (including their frame structures) and routing, nearly as extensive as the pure Ethernet sections. This was unexpected from the title, but I found it to be a technically strong starting point to making the jump from the details of Ethernet to what may be its major use, the transport of TCP/IP to and from the workstation. The extensive discussions on token ring networks and IBM's SNA were also unexpected, although not relevant to my personal needs. The book succeeds quite well in presenting an integration of the activities of network communication looking from the workstation out to the network. It's driven me to other sources for more detailed information in these areas.All in all, I found this to be a significant book in my studies. The next edition, in my opinion, would benefit greatly from a more descriptive title and the attention of a professional editor.

Pretty good

Solid, straight-forward. Perhaps too much coverage of 10base when most new ethernet books should concentrate on Fast or Gigabit (although coverage of those topics was adequate).