I have never seen a book this big that brushed over so many topics in my life. In chapter 28 "Firewalls, Gateways and Proxy servers" there is 1 paragraph about gateways and it contains maybe 300 words. That is typical of the entire book. Almost NO applications ie: instructions on how to actually DO anything. I've seen dictionaries that are not about networking that have more real world information on how to get a network up and actually running.



If there is a networking topic that you need to know about in order to get something to actually function... use Yahoo or Google and trust the 15 year old kids in the forum posts you find. They have alot more applicable knowledge than this book. Sure, they might not be able to quote the 300+ pages worth of "How rj45 cables are manufactured" or the 200+ pages of "How the IEEE decided upon this protocol" that this book has in it. But, they will help you to get your network up. If that's not enough then browse the handbook at [...] or look through any major operating system's online man pages.



How can the author and publisher of this not be ashamed??? The other reviews I have read here MUST have come from people inside either the publishing company or they are friends of the author. Period. If you enjoy having a question that needs answered and searching and searching and searching... only to find that the subject is actually in the book BUT none of it is usable... then by all means get this book. If you don't believe me then, again, by all means get this book. If you want to waste alot of money on fluff and filler, a paperweight... then get this book.



I am more than dissatisfied. I feel totally let down and basically robbed. This book is at best a reference for the technical "standards" as if most of it's contents were directly copied from internal ICANN or W3 documents and yet it is being presented as some kind of "User Manual" which could not be any further from the truth. I do believe that the author has his masters or doctorate or phd because he has fully presented a mastery of what is there... but I now KNOW that he is a complete dumb@$$ because he can not or is not willing to present any of it in a useful way.



I will NEVER buy anything published by Wiley again. Period.

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